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DRINKER MOTH. 



and deep chocolate brown, is common alons our 

 hedgerows, and is easily reared. It makes a 

 spindle-shaped cocoon of much softer material 

 than that of the Eggar Moth. 



This Moth is easily attracted by light. I have 



Lappet iloth (wings closed). 



caught many of them fluttering about the gas- 

 lamps in the streets of Oxford, and in the shop- 

 windows, and have seen them lying disabled 

 within the lamps, having coJitrived to crawl 



