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hedges, which their larvae have half stripped of their leaves. 

 Our other white Liparidce are larger and less common. 



THE BROWN-TAIL MOTH. EUPROCTIS CHRYSORRHCEA. 



Bombyx chrysorrhcza, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 502, no. 28 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 299 (1761); Hiibner, Eur. 

 Schmett. iii. figs. 67, 248, 249 (1800?); Godart, Lepid. 

 France, iv. p. 273, pi. 27, fig. 3 (1822). 



Bombyx auriflua, Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 20 *, Taf. 39, fig. 6 



(1785). 



Bombyx phaorrh&ct) Donovan, Brit. Ins. x. pi. 555 (1801). 

 Liparis chrysorrhxa^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 202 



(1810). 

 Porthesia auriflua, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 66 



(1828). 



The Brown-Tail Moth. 



Porthesia chrysorrhxa, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. 1 1 1, pi. 25, fig. 4 (1879); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. 



iii. pi. 40, fig. i (1889) ; Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii. p. 



292, pi. 78, fig. 2, za-c (1894). 

 Euproctis chrysorrhcta, Kirby, Cat, Lepid. Heter. i. p. 442 



(1892). 



The Brown-Tail Moth is found throughout Europe, North 

 Africa, and Asia Minor. It expands from i^ to 1% inch. 

 It is white, sometimes with a dark spot near the hinder angle of 

 the fore-wings in the male. The abdomen ends in a tuft of 



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