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The orbicular stigma is also seldom visible, and is often only 

 indicated by a fine line and pale patch. In front of the 

 yellowish-brown fringes is a row of dots. The hind-wings are 

 white, with fringes of the same colour. The head and the 

 crested thorax are pale yellow, the abdomen whitish, and the 

 antennae ferruginous. 



The Barred Sallow. 



The larva feeds in early spring on the catkins of sallow, but 

 leaves them as it approaches its full growth, and then feeds on 

 plantain and other low plants, though it will also eat the young 

 shoots of the sallow when nothing else is available. It is 

 greyish-brown, with a black horny plate on the second segment 

 marked with three white lines, of which the middle one is 

 indistinct. There is a white dorsal line bordered on both sides 

 by fine pale lines, and a greyish spiracular line. 



The pupa is enclosed in an earthen cocoon in the ground. 

 The moth appears in August. 



SUB-FAMILY IX. COSMIIN.E. 



The moths of this Sub-family are usually rather small, with 

 pubescent antennae, ascending and approximating palpi, and 



