236 THE ANCIX SHADES. 



The caterpillar is usually green, with a row of 

 oblong white spots on the back, and a continuous 

 white line on each side just over the legs. It feeds 

 on culinary vegetables and many of our common 

 field plants. The moth may be said to be common 

 in most parts of the country, but is much scarcer in 

 Scotland than further south. April, June, and 

 September are the months in which it appears most 

 plentifully, there being apparently three broods in 

 the season. 



PEASE-BLOSSOM MOTH. 



Chariclea Delphinii. 

 PLATE XXV. Fig. 1. 



Phal. Noct. Delphinii, Linn.; Don. x. PI. 331. Pease-Blo&- 



som Moth, Wilkes, (PI. 3.) Harris Chariclea Delphinii, 



Steph. ; Curtis, vol. ii. 76. 



THE beautiful insect for the reception of which the 

 genus Chariclea has been established, fcears con- 

 siderable affinity to Cucullia both in the state of 

 moth and caterpillar. The antennas are covered 

 with scales above, and are hairy beneath ; the pro- 

 boscis nearly as long as the body ; the palpi entirely 

 covered with long thick-set hair, upon the removal 

 of which the radical joint appears longest, the ter- 

 minal one small and ovate. The upper wings are 



