1 84 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



brownish, freckled with black. It feeds, in June and July, 

 probably, in a wild state, on some kind of " cress," growing in 

 ±e moister parts of woods ; in confinement, it will eat cabbage, 

 horseradish, and wallflower, among other kinds of Cruciferas. 

 There is a second brood in August and September. (Plate 74, 

 Fig. 3, after Hofmann.) 



The moth is out in May and June, and again in August. It 

 is fond of resting on tree-trunks in woods, especially where the 

 ground is moist, but it may also be beaten out of hedges and 

 bushes. It is most plentiful in the southern half of England, 

 but is spread over the greater part of the British Isles, including 

 the Orkneys. 



Abroad, its range extends to Eastern Siberia, Amurland, 

 Japan, and North America. 



The Beech-Green Carpet {Amoebe oUvata). 



The species, depicted on Plate 75, Figs. 9, 10, when quite 

 fresh has the fore wings greenish, and the central band more 

 or less tinged with brown, in some specimens with blackish ; 

 the inner edge of the band is not so clearly detined as the outer, 

 the latter being followed by a narrow whitish wavy band ; 

 a series of black dots edged with white represent the sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wings, smoky grey, with a pale band 

 beyond the middle, and a pale line nearer the outer margin. 



The roughened caterpillar (Plate 73, Fig. i) is ochreous 

 brown, mottled with darker brown, and lined with grey ; the 

 raised dots are black, each with a short bristle. It feeds at 

 night on bedstraw {Galium), in the spring to May, after hiber- 

 nation. 



The moth is out, as a rule, in July and August, but sometimes 

 much earher. I reared specimens during the last week in May, 

 1907, from caterpillars sent from Torquay by Mr. Walker. It 



