35^ THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



grown in May or June, and turns to a brownish chrysalis in a 

 cell formed in the bark. A well-known locality for this moth, 

 which is out in July and early August, is Hyde Park, London. 

 It is also found in woods or oak-timbered parks in Kent (Tun- 

 bridge Wells), Surrey, Sussex (Abbot's Wood, Tilgate, etc.), 

 Dorset (Glanvilles Wootton, etc.), Devon (Devonport, Ply- 

 mouth, Topsham, etc.), Essex (Epping), Suffolk, Oxfordshire, 

 Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire 

 (Doncaster). 



Red-belted Clearwing (Sesia myopceformis). 



One example of each sex is shown on Plate 155, where Fig. 2 

 represents the male and Fig. 3 the female ; both have a single 

 belt on the body ; as a rule, the belt is red, but occasionally it 

 inclines to orange or yellow. 



The caterpillar feeds on the inner bark of the trunks or boughs 

 of apple, and sometimes pear, trees. It is nearly two years in 

 maturing, but is full grown about June. The moth is out during 

 the summer months, and is to be seen early on sunny mornings, 

 newly emerged fjom the chrysahs on the trunks of the trees in 

 which the caterpillar lives ; the chrysalis skins will also be noted 

 at the same time, sticking out from holes in the bark. Later in 

 the day it sits on leaves, etc., after its flights, and I have even 

 found it occasionally on a gravel path, and once on the pave- 

 ment of a road in North-west London. 



The species seems to be most frequent in gardens and 

 orchards around London, but it has been recorded from as far 

 north as Lancashire and Yorkshire ; it is probably widely dis- 

 tributed over England. The Irish localities, mentioned by 

 Kane, are Dublin, Cork, Killarney, and Clonbrock. 



