BRITISH MOTHS. 



portion rather darker, and outside of this basal 

 darker part is a central black spot ; between 

 the spot and the hind margin are three trans- 

 verse waved lines, the darkest inside, the 

 lightest outside. The crown of the head is 

 almost white ; the thorax and body are of the 

 same colour as the wings. 



The MOTH is taken in July in the Isle of 

 Portland, and, I believe, nowhere else in Eng- 

 mnd, Scotland, or Ireland. (The scientific 

 name is Acidalia degeneraria.) 



196. The Small Scallop (Acidalia emcvrginata). 



196. THE SMALL SCALLOP. The antennae 

 are nearly simple in both sexes. Fore wings 

 with a double toothlike projection in the 

 middle of the hind margin : hind wings dis- 

 tinctly angulated, the angle being double. All 

 the wings slightly scalloped, ochreous-yellow, 

 and each having a central brown spot ; the 

 fore wings have three narrow transverse lines, 

 one on each side of the central spot, and the 

 third on the hind margin : the hind wings 

 have two narrow transverse lines, the first 

 outside the central spot, and the second on the 

 hind margin : the head, thorax and body are 

 of the same ochreous-yellow colour as the 

 wings. 



This MOTH is not abundant : it is occa- 

 sionally taken in nearly all the English counties 

 about midsummer, bub 'has not been found in 

 Scotland or Ireland. (The scientific name is 

 Acidalia emarginata.) 



197. The Blood-Vein (Timandra anatwria). 



197. THE BLOOD- VEIN. The anteunse of 

 tile male are strongly pectinated ; thost, of the 

 female simple, the fore wings are pointed, the 

 hind wings angled ; all the wings of an olive- 



gray colour, thickly sprinkled with darker 

 spots, and having a beautiful oblique red 

 stripe commencing at the tip of the fore wings, 

 and ending at the middle of the inner margin 

 of the hind wings. The fore wings have a 

 transverse central spot, and a slender dark 

 waved line, commencing at the tip of the 

 wing side by side with the red stripe, and 

 ending on the inner margin, halfway between 

 the red stripe and the anal angle ; a similar 

 line on the hind wings meets this one on the 

 fore wings and crosses the hind wing half way 

 between the red stripe and the hind margin ; 

 the hind margins of all the wings are beauti- 

 fully rose-coloured, the rose colour falling 

 gradually into the olive gray ; head, thorax, 

 and body gray. 



The CATEEPILLAR is dingy smoke-colour, 

 with a medio-dorsal stripe almost white ; 

 between this and the spiracles is another 

 whitish stripe on each side, but this is less per- 

 fect than the medio-dorsal stripe. It feeds on 

 several kinds of dock, sorrel, and knot grass, 

 Hiid frequently swarms in fields of buckwheat. 



The MOTH, which is extremely beautiful, is 

 common about midsummer in most of the 

 English counties, and in Ireland has been 

 taken in Gal way and Kerry. (The scientific 

 name is Timandra amataria.) 



198. The Common White Wave (Cabera pusaria), 

 male. 



198. THE COMMON WHITE WAVE. The 

 antennae are pectinated in the male, simple 

 in the female. All the wings rounded 

 white, sprinkled with gray dots ; the fore 

 wings have three oblique, transverse, gray 

 lines, the hind wings two ; the second and 

 third of these lines are frequently nearer to- 

 gether than the first and second. A variety 

 occasionally occurs, in which the second and 

 third lines are united and appear as one, so 

 that the foi'e wings have only two transverse 

 lines. The shaft of the antennae, the head, 

 thorax, a" 4 body are pure white, 



