DESCKIPTIVE NOTICES OF CONSPICUOUS SPECIES 171 



FAMILY VIII. ENDROMID^E. 



ENDROMIS VERSICOLORA. THE KENTISH 

 GLORY. 



This handsome insect occurs in several parts of the 

 country, and is sometimes tolerably plentiful. Ashdown 

 Forest is perhaps the best southern locality for it, and 

 Eannoch, in Scotland ; in Ireland it occurs at Powers- 

 court. 



The expansion of the wings is about 2J inches. 



The fore-wings are orange-brown, prettily marked with 

 black and white ; before the middle is a curved, black, 

 transverse line, inwardly bordered with white, beyond 

 the middle is a second, black, transverse line, much in- 

 dented in its lower half, it is edged with white on the 

 outside, between these two lines is a V-shaped black 

 mark on the disk, and beyond the second line are some 

 white blotches towards the costa, and whitish streaks 

 running into the hind margin. 



The larva, not hairy, is whitish-green, rather humped 

 on the twelfth segment ; on each side of the back are 

 ten oblique white streaks (reminding one of a Sphinx 

 larva) ; it feeds on birch in July and August. . 



The perfect insect appears in April, and flies briskly 

 in the daytime. 



FAMILY IX. SATURNIMI. 



SATURNIA PAVONIA-MINOR. THE EMPEROK 

 MOTH. 



This handsome species is common throughout the 

 country. 



The expansion of the wings of the male is about 2 J 

 inches, of the female about 2} inches. The male has 



