PEACH-BLOSSOM MOTH. 9 



with the tip acute ; the body rather robust, and the 

 thorax furnished with a transverse crest, which is 

 forked posteriorly. When obtained in perfection, 

 the species above referred to, named the Peach-blos- 

 som from the colour of the spots on its upper wings, 

 is one of the most lovely found in this country. 

 The upper wings are brown with dark transvers 

 waved lines rather darkest towards the base, each 

 of them with five rose-coloured spots, a large one 

 at the base, clouded with brown, two towards the 

 tip (sometimes united), a third on the posterior 

 angle having a brown spot in the middle, and a 

 smaller one on the inner margin ; there is likewise 

 a minute rosy spot on the hinder margin adjoining 

 that on the posterior angle. The hinder wings are 

 dusky inclining to ochre-yellow, and having a pale 

 waved line near the middle ; the abdomen of a 

 similar colour. 



The caterpillar is of a very peculiar form, having 

 a large gibbosity on the back a little behind the 

 head cleft at the summit into two branches, and 

 triangular elevations along the back marked with a 

 pale zigzag line ; the colour rust-brown or blackish. 

 It feeds on the common bramble. The moth ap- 

 pears in June and July, and is usually found in the 

 evening in the "vicinity of woods ; it is not however 

 of very frequent occurrence, although it seems to 

 inhabit all the southern counties of England, and 

 has occasionally occurred pretty far north. " Five 

 or six specimens have been taken at Jardine Hall.* 1 

 Sir W. Jardine, Bart. 



