60 BORDERED BEAUTY. 



V. fig. 3, \\^ill give a good idea of its appearancG, 

 and will show tlie slightly angular form of the 

 wings. The general colour is pale brown, and 

 the slight lines that are seen crossing the wings 

 are blackish brown. The hind-wings are also 

 pale brown, but of a much lighter hue than the 

 upper pair. 



The Moth may be found any time about mid- 

 summer, and can mostly be taken in the neigh- 

 bourhood of oak and beech, on which the cater- 

 pillar feeds. 



The reader will observe that the angular form 

 of the wings is found in a greater or less degree 

 throughout the whole of the present family of 

 Moths, which perhaps from this peculiarity 

 have received the popular and rather fanciful 

 name of Thorns. Some of these are known by 

 other popular names, the worst of which is, that 

 the name generally cv.iiveys no sort of idea of the 

 insect. One of these Moths is the well-known 

 Bordered Beauty [Epione apiciaria), one of the 

 prettiest members of this family. It is much 

 smaller than those which have already been 

 described, being little more than an inch in 

 expanse of wing. The peculiarity of this Moth 

 is, that both pairs of wings are surrounded by a 

 broad band of purplish brown, the rest of the 



