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brown, and expands about an inch and a half ; others are found 

 in woods, like the black, white-spotted Ennychia Octomaculata, 

 or frequent dry places, like the red, yellow-spotted Pyrausta Pur- 

 puralis ; others, like the China Marks belonging to the genera 

 Cataclysta and Hydrocampa^ are found among reeds ; these latter 



Ennychia Octomcciilata. 



are white, with black and sometimes with yellowish lines on the 

 wings. The Botyda are rather larger and longer-winged insects 

 than the true Pyralidce, and are generally of a yellowish colour ; 

 one species, however (the Small Magpie, Botys Urticata), which 

 is common among nettles, is black and white. 



The Crambida are small moths, with slender bodies, and long 

 palpi. The fore wings are narrow, and the hind wings ample, 

 but fold into a very small compass when at rest. Many 

 species of Crambus, with pearly white, yellowish, or brown fore 

 wings streaked with white, and brown or whitish hind wings, 

 are common in meadows. 



The Tortricida, or Bell Moths, have broad ample wings, and 

 broad, rather short, truncated fore wings, so that they somewhat 

 resemble a bell in shape when at rest. They are all small moths, 

 rarely expanding more than three-quarters of an inch. Many of 

 their larvae live in rolled-up leaves ; others live in the heads of 

 composite flowers, or in the interior of fruits. The Green Oak 

 Moth (Tortrix Viridana), with green fore wings and brown 

 hind wings, may be beaten in abundance from any oak tree in 

 summer. The larva of Penthina Pruniana, the brown moth 



Penthina Pruniana. 



with paler markings which we have figured, feeds on sloe ; but 

 the larvae of two other species of this group (Carpocapsa 

 Pomonella and Funebrana) live in the interior of apples and 

 plums. Two species of Xanthosetia^ with rather narrower 



