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BRITISH MOTHS. 



FAMILY XII. THE LIPABULE. 



79. The Brown-tail Moth (Liparis chrysorrhiea). 



80. The Yellow-tail Moth (Liparis auriflud). 



81. The Satin Moth (Liparis Salicis). 



82. The Gipsy (Liparis dispar). 



83. The Black Archts (Liparis monaca). 



89. The Nut-Tree Tussock (Demos Coryli). 



84. The Pale Tussock (Orgyia pudibunda). 



85. The Dark Tussock (Orgyia fascelina). 



86 The Reed Tussock (Orgyia cccnosa). 



87 The Scarce Vapourer (Orgyia gonostigma). 

 88. The Common Vapourer (Orgyia antiqua). 



THE TWELFTH FAMILY of Moths, called 

 Liparido-,, contains eleven species : they have 

 far less brilliancy of colour than the Cheloniidce 

 and in several species white greatly pre- 

 dominates. The caterpillars are very hairy, 

 and many have stiff tufts of hair like brushes ; 

 but what is the most singular and unmistak- 

 able character of the family is, that all the 

 chrysalides as well as the caterpillars are 

 hairy. 



79. The Brown-tail Moth (Liparis chrysorrhita). 



79. THB BROWN-TAIL MOTH. All the 

 wings white ; head and thorax also white ; 

 body white at the base, but brown at the ex- 

 tremity ; in the female the brown part is a 

 large tuft, the down on which is most 

 abundant, and is scraped off by the insect as 

 a covering for her eggs. The caterpillar is 

 short, stout, and black, with four rows of wart- 

 like tubercles on each side, from which radiate 

 a number of long bristle-like hairs. These 

 tufts of hair on the second row from the back, 

 on the segments from the fifth to the twelfth 

 both inclusive, are snow-white and fanlike ; 

 the tenth and the eleventh segments have a 

 circular, wax-like, cup-shaped, scarlet spot on 

 the very middle of the back ; there are also 

 several other small scarlet markings on dif- 

 ferent parts of the caterpillar. It feeds on 

 whitethorn and blackthorn, and spins a thin 

 web among the leaves, in which it changes 

 into a chrysalis having a few tufts of thin 

 brown hairs. (The scientific name is Liparis 

 chrysorrhoea^ 



80. THB YELLOW-TAIL MOTH. All the 

 wings are of a delicate satiny- white, the fore 



80. The Yellow-tail Moth (Liparis auriflua). 

 wings havinga round and often indistinct black 

 spot near the anal angle ; the head and thorax 

 are pure unsullied white ; the body is white at 

 the base, but golden-yellow at the extremity. 

 The female Moth has the same habit as the last, 

 covering its eggs with the down from its own 

 body. The caterpillar is short and stout, the 

 ground-colour black ; it has rows of tubercles 

 on each side, from each of which radiates a 

 number of bristle-like hairs. The first row of 

 tubercles, that nearest the back, is black ;; each 

 of the second row is ornamented with a tuft 

 of whitish hairs ; the third row of tubercles 

 is coral-red. There are two interrupted ver- 

 million-coloured stripes extending along the 

 back ; the second segment has a coral-coloured 

 projection close behind the head ; the fifth 

 and sixth segments are humped on the back ; 

 the tenth and the eleventh have around, wax- 

 like, cup-shaped mark on the very middle of 

 the back. It is a beautiful and very common 

 caterpillar, feeding on the whitethorn in every 

 hedge ; it spins a web among its food, and 

 changes to a brown chrysalis, having a few 

 scattered tufts of brown hairs. The Moth 

 appears in July. (The scientific name is 

 Liparis auriflua.) 



81. The Satin Moth (Liparis Sands'). 



81. TH SATIN MOTH. Wings white, 



