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BRITISH MOTHS. 



rays darker : the head, thorax, and body are 

 pale ochreous. 



My specimen was taken in August at 

 Brighton, aud Mr. Doxiglas Wilkinson in- 

 forms me it has been taken in Kircudbright- 

 hire, in Scotland, but I have not seen any 

 specimens from the North : is the specimen 

 correctly named 1 (The scientific name is 

 Synia, musculosa.) 



j63. The Small Wainscot (Tapinostola fulva) . 



463. THE SMALL WAINSCOT. The antennae 

 of the male are slightly pubescent, and there- 

 lore appear stouter than those of the female : 

 the fore wings have the costa quite straight to 

 the tip, which is rather pointed ; their hind 

 margin is straight at the tip, but rather 

 convex below ; their colour is very various, 

 sometimes whitish-gray, sometimes ochreous 

 or fulvous, and sometimes even ferruginous or 

 brick-oust red, but always sprinkled, more or 

 less, with black or dark-brown atoms or single 

 scales, and these are so numerous on the 

 wing-rays and in the vicinity of the sub- 

 costal and median wing- rays, and again near 

 the tip, as to give these parts a decidedly 

 darker tint ; each of the parallel rays has 

 also a small black dot, and these together 

 form a curved series almost parallel with the 

 hind margin ; the fringe is nearly concolorous 

 with the disk of the wing : on the underside 

 of the moth the central area of the fore wing 

 is ymoky-gray, and all the margins are paler : 



the hind wings are small, rather narrow and 

 rather long, in this respect contrasting with 

 those of Hellmanni ; their colour is smoky- 

 gray, the fringe and costal margin being 

 paler : the head and thorax vary in colour 

 with the fore wings, the thorax being densely 

 clothed with lougish scales ; the body is 

 whitish-gray, the extremity in the male being 

 tufted, or rather fringed, with long scales. 



"The CATERPILLAR is short and thick, dirty- 

 white with reddish dorsal stripe ; a blackish 

 line above the spiracles (Treitschke). Feeds in 

 the stems of grass (Po<i aquatica), and sedge 

 (Carex)" Stainton's Manual, vol. i. p. 193. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in Septem- 

 ber, and is found in most of our English coun- 

 ties, north and south. Mr. Birchall informs us 

 that it is widely distributed in Ireland, and 

 Mr. Logan takes it in Scotland. (The sci- 

 entific name is Tapinostola fulva : it is the 

 Nonagria fulva of Doubleday's List.) 



464. The Concolorous (Tapinostola concolor). 



464. THE CONCOLOROUS. The palpi are 

 long and projecting ; the antennae are simple 

 in both sexes : the fore wings are nearly 

 straight on the costa and blunt at the tip ; 

 their hind margin is straight for half its 

 length, and then rather suddenly bends to- 

 wai-ds the anal angle ; their colour is dingy- ' 

 white, slightly tinged with wainscot-brown, 

 the wing-rays appearing paler from the inter- 

 spaces being sprinkled with darker atoms or 

 scales, especially towards the hind margin : 

 there is an arched series of seven or eight 

 black dots beyond the middle of the wing, 

 and somewhat following the course of the 

 hind margin : the usual discoidal spots are 



