4.8 LACKEY MOTH. 



junction of the segments marked with belts of 

 bright gold. As it becomes older, the gold bands 

 vanish, and the entire larva is deep rusty red. 

 The cocoon is comparatively a large one, permitting 

 the pupa to move from one end to the other. 



The Ground Lackey Moth {Bomhyx [or 

 Clidocamjja] castrensis) is a rather pretty moth, 

 and very variable in colour. 

 The upper wings are reddish 

 yellow, with two darker bars, 

 aud the under wings are al- 

 _, ^ , ,, ,, together darker. This is the 



Ground Lackey Moth. *^ 



usual marking, but there is 

 so great a variety of hues that a more detailed 

 description is needless. The larva feeds chiefly 

 on the herbage of salt marshes. 



On Plate IV. fig. 1, is a figure of the common 

 Drinker Moth {Odonestris potatoria). As may 

 be seen by the illustration, this is a conspicuous, 

 though a soberly-tinted insect ; the beak-like form 

 of the palpi, the soft downy plumage, and the 

 deeply pectinated antennae of the male, at once 

 pointing it out. The remarkable forked appear- 

 ance of the tail-plumage is another characteristic. 



The fore-wings of the male are of a ruddy 

 yellow, with a white spot, somewhat like that 

 on the Oak-eggar, and an oblique dusky streak 



