WHITE-PLUMED MOTH. 267 



which are described by Reaumur, have sixteen legs, 

 and are furnished with hairs sometimes of consider- 

 able length placed on rows of tubercles. The pupas, 

 which are likewise hairy, at least in some species, 

 are occasionally suspended by a band round the 

 middle. The White-plume Moth is the largest of 

 the British kinds, the wings sometimes measures 

 rather more than an inch across ; the anterior pair 

 rather ample, deeply cleft, with the apex somewhat 

 acute, the whole snow-white with a silky gloss; 

 the eyes alone being black. The caterpillar, which 

 feeds principally on nettles, is white tinged with 

 green, marked with dusky spots, and having a yellow 

 line on the sides. 



The moth is common throughout England on 

 hedge banks, weedy lanes, &c., and appears to be 

 by no means rare in Scotland. 



MANY-PLUMED MOTH. 



Aludta Hexadactyla. 

 PLATE XXX. Fig. 4. 



Phal. Alucita Hexadactyla, Linn. ; Don. iv. PI. 136 Twenty- 

 Plumed Moth, Harris. Pteroph. Hexadactylus ; The Six- 

 cleft Plume, Haworth. 



AT once distinguished from all its associates by the 

 beautiful structure of the wings, which are regularly 

 divided into equal plumes, composed after the maa- 



