PINE BEAUTT MOTH. 117 



The caterpillar feeds on the night-shade, and 

 is coloured with much the same hue as the 

 upper wings of the perfect insect. The Moth 

 appears at the end of spring or beginning of 

 summer, and is tolerably common in most parts 

 of England. The genus is a very large one, 

 twenty British species being included in it. 



THE next family, that of the Orthosidae, con- 

 tains a great number of Moths, our first specimen 

 of which is the PINE BEAUTT (Trachea Pini- 

 perda), a figure of which is given on Plate IX. 

 fig. 3. 



This is a very pretty Moth, the upper wings 

 being orange-brown, variegated with bold mark- 

 ings of dark brown und greyish white, the shape 

 and arrangement of which can be seen by refer- 

 ence to the figure. The lower wings are pale 

 grey brown, and the thorax is coloured much 

 like the upper wings. 



The larva of this Moth feeds on the fir, and 

 may be shaken from the tree by tapping 

 the branches. When full-fed it spins a slight 

 cocoon in a crevice of the bark, and there 

 remains until it changes into a moth, which 

 appears about the middle of spring. After it 

 issues from the cocoon, it is fond of sitting 



