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BRITISH MOTHS. 



brown, the thorax gray, the body gray with 

 numerous brown dots, and two conspicuous 

 brown spots on the back of each segment. 



The CATERPILLAR feeds on sallow (Salix 

 caprcea); it is olive-green on the back, with 

 a medio-dorsal series of ochreous-brown 

 spots; the sides are of the same ochreous- 

 brown colour as the dorsal spots : it is to be 

 found in September. 



The MOTH appears in the following June, 

 and occurs in several southern counties of 

 England, and also in Ireland. (The scientific 

 name is Macaria notata.) 



206. The Tawny -barred Angle (Macaria liturata). 



206. THE TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE. The 

 antennae are very slightly pubescent in the 

 male, quite simple in the female ; the hind 

 wings are angled; all the wings are ochreous- 

 gray, with a broad but indistinct band siiffused 

 with orange-yellow near and parallel to the 

 hind margin ; the gray portions of the wing 

 are delicately dotted with dark brown ; the 

 fore wings have several very distinct brown 

 spots on the costal margin ; from three of 

 these, more conspicuous than the rest, three 

 waved brown lines cross the wing, termi- 

 nating on the inner margin, the third borders 

 the orange-tinged band I have already de- 

 scribed; hind wings with two waved transverse 

 pale brown lines, and a central brown spot 

 between them. Head and neck yellow- brown, 

 thorax and body sprinkled with brown. 



The CATERPILLAR feeds in fir-woods on the 

 needles of the firs; it has a brown head and 

 green body, with five whitish stripes, the 

 medio-dorsal stripe, and the next on each side, 

 or subdorsal stripe, are rather dingy white, 

 but the second on each side on the region of 

 the spiracles is almost pure white. 



The MOTH appears in July, in several coun- 

 ties of England, Scotland, and Ireland. (The 

 scientific name is Macaria liturata.) 



207. The V. Moth (Halia wavaria). 



207. THE V. MOTH. The antennae of the 

 male are pectinated, the pectinations short, but 

 very obvious ; those of the female simple ; the 

 fore wings are simple; the hind wings slightly 

 scalloped ; all the wings are gray, tinged with 

 a faint iridescent or purple gloss, the hind 

 margin also suffused with brown : on the costal 

 margin of the fore wings are numerous short 

 transverse streaks, and four conspicuous spots 

 of a dark timber-brown ; of these spots the first 

 and third are shortest and smallest, the second 

 is longest, it almost reaches the middle of the 

 wing, and then turns at a right angle towards 

 the base, the fourth is broader but much 

 shorter than the second ; on the hind margin 

 is a series of dark black lines almost touching 

 each other, and the middle of each emits a 

 little brush of white fringe ; the hind wings 

 have an obscure spot near the centre, and 

 similar markings on the hind margin to those 

 on the fore wing. The body is gray, dotted 

 with brown. 



The CATERPILLAR rests in a nearly straight 

 posture, but with the head erected and por- 

 rected. When disturbed, it falls from its food 

 bent double, and feigns death, remaining for 

 a long time perfectly without motion ; its body 

 is slightly dilated at the sides, otherwise uni- 

 formly cylindrical ; head lead-coloured, with 

 black markings, the disposition of which differs 

 in different individuals : the colour of the 

 back varies from an obscure apple-green to a 

 decided lead-colour, scarcely two individuals 

 being precisely similar in tint, but all are 

 marked longitudinally with waved interrupted 

 smoke-coloured lines, which are very near 

 together : belly coloured nearly like the 

 back ; on the sides each segment is adorned 

 with a canary-coloured blotch : all these 

 together have the appearance of a yellow 

 lateral stripe; on all parts of the body are 



