THE MAGPIE. 



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are of the usual pattern. The example of this form (Plate 104, 

 Fig. 3) was reared from a large number of caterpillars I 

 collected at Purley, in Surrey, a year or two ago, and was the only 

 example among the moths resulting therefrom that was worth 

 retaining. The very fine variety shown on Plate 104, Fig. 5, is 

 ab. varleyata, Porritt, which occurs in Yorkshire, but is mostly 

 reared in captivity from eggs obtained from a wild female in the 

 first place, and 



subsequent pair- " ~ - 



ings ; the speci- 

 men figured is an 

 especially fine ex- 

 ample of the fe- 

 male sex, raised 

 among others of 

 the same form by 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 of Huddersfield, 

 who has been 

 good enough to 

 lend it for the 

 purpose. Several 

 other varieties of 

 this species have 

 been named and 

 described by the 





Fig. 6. 



Mag-pie Moth, drying wingrs. 



(Photo by H. Main.) 



Rev. Gilbert H. 



Raynor, but reference can only be made here to two of these ; 

 one is ab. melanosona^ a Scottish form, in which there is a 

 black blotch with traces of yellow In it at the base of the fore 

 wings ; a large black discal spot in the white central area ; 

 a black band, widening towards the front margin, before the 

 faint yellow band, the latter followed by four black spots ; 

 hind wings with central black spot, and two series of black 



