LARGE SWORD-GRASS MOTH. 225 



Biderable affinity to the group named Cucullia ; an 

 besides other properties common to both, have this 

 peculiarity, that when they are made to fall down 

 they roll their wings closely round them and draw 

 in their legs and antennae ; a position in which they 

 not a little resemble a piece of dead wood. The 

 species figured is rather the largest of the two, 

 the expansion of the wings being frequently up- 

 wards of two inches. The prevailing colour is 

 pale ochreous, inclining to reddish-brown in many 

 places. The upper wings are striated with dusky 

 lines towards the base, and the inner side is more 

 or less clouded with the same colour ; each of them 

 with two approximating ear-shaped spots near the 

 middle, the hinder one largest, and relieved with 

 black, which emits one or two salient points directed 

 backwards; the fringe brown spotted with black. 

 The hinder wings are dusky-grey, with a darker 

 lunulated spot towards the base ; the fringe ochre- 

 yellow. The thorax is dark-brown on the back, and 

 the abdomen light reddish-ochre, obscurely banded 

 with dark brown. 



The caterpillar is remarkably beautiful*, the 

 ground colour being a rich green, the back adorned 

 with two rows of white spots, connected in pairs, 

 below this a yellow line, succeeded by a series of 

 small round spots, and then a red line just over the 

 legs. (PI. xxn. fig. 3.) It feeds on almost every 



* The beauty of the larvse has suggested a name for the genus, 

 Calocampa being derived from */.; beautiful, and x/uir* a 



