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CABBAGE. 



Cabbage garden Pebble Moth. Pionea forjindis, L. 



PlONEA FORFICALIS. 



Moths, nat. size; injured leaf; caterpillar, mag.f ; line showing nat. length. 



The Cabbage-garden Pebble Moth is a kind which was observed as 

 long ago as 1834 as " very common in the neighbourhood of London 

 and in most parts of the country," and the caterpillars are known as 

 being very mischievous, where they occur in large numbers, to plants 

 of the Cabbage tribe, and especially to Horse Radish. The above 

 figure, sketched from one of a number of equally injured specimens 

 sent me from Huddersfield by Mr. S. L. Mosley, shows the power of 

 the caterpillars of clearing away the soft portions of the leaves until 

 scarcely anything but the harder veins and mid-ribs remain. 



The moth is of the size and pattern figured above from life ; the 

 colour of the upper wings pale yellowish or ochrey, marked with four more 

 or less distinct very narrow oblique rusty or brown streaks, also a kind 

 of dash of the same colour at the top of the wing, and a spot somewhat 

 behind the middle of the wing ; the hinder wings whitish yellow, with 

 a faint brownish streak running parallel to, and a little way within, the 

 margin ; all the wings bordered by a narrow brownish line on the 

 hinder margin. 



The largest specimen of the caterpillars sent me was rather over 



* The English name of the moth, though somewhat cumbrous in its entirety, 

 is appropriate, as pointing to the infestation having been specially found in gardens. 

 The generic name of Vunica is used at the present day, but this moth is also given 

 by some writers under the synonyms of Mesoyvaphe and Botys. 



t The cateiioillar is figured rather darker than life, in order to show the white 

 lines between the segments. 



