52 KENTISH GLORY. 



Perth. It owes its reputation more to its former 

 rarity than to the beauty of its colour. The 

 fore-wings are variegated with varied wavy pa. 

 rallel markings of deep rich brown, orange tawny, 

 and pale yellow, fading almost into white. 

 These markings are continued into the hind- 

 wings, which, however, have a groundwork of 

 yellow, deepening into rich orange at the hind 

 margin. In the female the markings are much 

 the same, but a pale grey takes the part of the 

 yellow and a faint blush pink of the orange. 

 The thorax and abdomen are dark brown, with 

 a faint shading of yellow in male and pink in 

 female. 



The larva of this species feeds on several trees, 

 of which the birch, the lime, and the hazel seem 

 to be its favourites. The Moth is shown in Plate 

 IV. fig. 3. 



Here must be mentioned the beautiful EMPEROR 

 MOTH (Saturnia pavonia-minor). 



This insect is equally remarkable in its three 

 Stages of existence. 



The larva is one of the handsomest of the 

 British caterpillars. Its colour is bright green, 

 belted with black, and each segment is very 

 deeply marked, as if a number of threads had 

 been tightly bound round the body. Each seg- 



