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THE BRIMSTONE-MOTH 



Rumia Cratcegata, 

 PLATE XXVII. Fig. 1. 



Phal. Geom. Crataegata, Linn. Geom. Crataegaria, Haivortk. 



Brimstone-moth, Wttkes, PI. 80 Yellow or Brimstone, 



Harris. Rumia Crataegata, Duponchel, Steph. 



IT expands from an inch to an inch and two-thirds ; 

 the colour deep sulphur yellow, the anterior edge of 

 the upper wings with two narrow reddish-brown 

 spots towards the base, a third near the middle 

 produced internally and having a white mark in the 

 centre, and a pretty large one on the apex ; behind 

 the middle there is a transverse row of faint dusky 

 marks, and two or three others near the base. The 

 hinder wings hare a small dusky spot on the disk, 

 sometimes with a white centre, and several evanes- 

 cent dusky marks, some of them forming a kind 

 of band posteriorly. The fringe is nearly the same 

 colour as the wings, and marked in certain places 

 with reddish-brown spots. 



The caterpillar, which is elongate and cylindrical, 

 is pale brown, with a bluish spot on each side of 

 the neck, and the spiracles on the sixth segment 



