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BRITISH MOTHS. 



618. Haworth'a Minor (Celcena Haworthii). 



513. HAWORTH'S MINOR. The palpi are 

 porrected and somewhat ascending ; the an- 

 tennae are slightly ciliated in the male, simple 

 in the female : the fore wings are straight on 

 the costa, and blunt but not rounded at the 

 tip ; their colour is bright rich umber-brown, 

 often with a reddish tinge, and always having 

 an oblique paler bar extending from the tip 

 to the inner margin, and also a hind-marginal 

 compound paler bar, which includes a series 

 of crescentic marginal black spots ; the orbi- 

 cular spot is small, often inconspicuous, and 

 sometimes wanting ; it Is variously formed, 

 but generally appears as a small circular 

 white mark ; the reniform is very conspicu- 

 ous, often brilliantly white ; a conspicuously 

 white wing-ray proceeds from the middle of 

 the base of the wing, and unites with the 

 lower extremity of the reniform, where it 

 branches, the two branches, still white, ex- 

 tending almost to the hind margin ; the fringe 

 is spotted alternately light and dark brown : 

 the hind wings are dark smoky-brown, with 

 the base and fringe paler : the thorax is 

 densely clothed with longish scales of a rich 

 red-brown colour ; the body is swoky-brown, 

 and without dorsal crests, but tufted at the 

 extremity in the male. 



The CATERPILLAR, according to Mr. Stain- 

 ton, feeds on the cotton grass (Eriophorum), 

 but I do not find that it has been seen, much 

 less described. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 continues flying over the peaty heaths during 

 August; it has been taken in Hampshire, 

 Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, 

 Yorkshire, Durham, and in several Scotch 

 localities, and Mr. Birchall says it is com- 

 mon on the Dublin and Wicklow mountains, 

 (The scientific name is Celcena HaworthiL} 



614. The Treble Lines (Grammesia trilinea). 



514. THE TREBLE LINES. The palpi aro 

 short, inconspicuous, and almost straight ; the 

 antennae are rather long, slightly pectinated 

 in the males, pubescent in the females : the 

 fore wings are ample, and rather pointed at 

 the tip ; their colour is dingy-gray, in some 

 specimens inclining to ochreous, in others to 

 smoky ; both the discoidal spots are wanting, 

 but there are usually four slender transverse 

 lines, darker than the ground colour ; the first 

 of these is very short, abbreviated, and near 

 the base of the wing; the second is almost 

 direct, and situated at a third of the distance 

 between the base and tip ; the third, generally 

 the broadest, but sometimes absent, crosses 

 the middle of the wing somewhat obliquely ; 

 and the fourth is rather curved, and parallel 

 with the hind margin : the hind wings are 

 gray-brown, almost invariably darker than 

 the fore wings, the hind margin is sinuous, 

 and their fringe paler : the thorax is woolly, 

 and always takes the tint of the fore wings, 



