78 GREEN CARPET. 



The Winter Moth is one of the many insects 

 that have devastated districts in which the small 

 birds have been exterminated under the idea that 

 they destroy the fruit. 



The beautiful pectination of the antennae of 

 the male Winter Moth is shown on cut H, fig. 

 2, p. 37. 



An example of the Carpet Moth is seen on 

 Plate VI. fig. 5. This is the Green Carpet 

 {Larentia pectinitaria), a pretty Moth which de- 

 rives its popular name from the greenish hue 

 that predominates in the colouring of the fore- 

 wings. The thorax and abdomen are also green, 

 the latter ha^dng each segment edged with white, 

 and a row of black dots down the middle. The 

 marks on the wings are blackish brown, and most 

 of them have an edging of white. The larva 

 feeds on the bed-straw, and seldom emerges from 

 the roots, where it conceals itself. Six or seven 

 species of Larentia are known to entomologists. 



Of the great genus Eupithecia, which includes 

 more than forty species, two examples are given. 

 The Moths that belong to this genus are called 

 by the popular name of Pug Moths — why, is not 

 easy to say. 



These Moths have both pairs of wings of a uni- 



