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BRITISH MOTHS. 



beiag more inclined to brown ; the orbicular 

 spot is very indistinctly defined, and unites 

 with a costal blotch similar in its gray tint ; 

 the reniform is distinct, its outline well de- 

 fined and pale, its median area rather dark 

 brown ; the space between the discoidal spots 

 is dark brown, and between the orbicular and 

 the base of the wing there is a conspicuous 

 brown mark, which encloses a square pale 

 costal spot ; there is a dark but vague spot 

 near the base of the wing, an angled line be- 

 tween the orbicular and the inner margin, 

 and a zigzag line beyond the reniform ; the 

 hind-marginal area is pale, interrupted by a 

 series of six or seven dark oblong spots ; on 

 the hind margin itself is a series of linear 

 black spots : the hind wings are grayish- 

 brown, paler at the base, and having a hind- 

 marginal series of dark linear spots ; the head, 

 thorax, and body are gray-brown. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in August. 

 Mr. Douglas took a single specimen on Cairn 

 Gower, in Perthshire, and the late James 

 Foxcroft a second, also in Scotland ; the 

 latter is in the rich cabinet of Mr. Bond, and 

 has been most kindly lent me to describe and 

 figure in this work. (The scientific name is 

 Pachnobia carnica.) 



573. The Hebrew Character (Tazniocampa gothica). 



573. THE HEBREW CHARACTER. The palpi 

 are small, slightly porrected, and very in- 

 conspicuous ; the second joint is slender, and 

 ?ery dark brown below; the third short, 

 slender, and very pale ; the antennae are 

 pectinated in the male, simple in the female : 

 the colour of the fore wings is purple-brown, 

 more or less tinged with gray ; the scales 

 seem to stand erect ; the orbicular spot is in- 

 complete at the k>p, and the reniform at the 



bottom ; both are circumscribed, where com- 

 plete, with a slender pale line, and the in- 

 closed area is gray ; the space between the 

 discoidal spots, and around the orbicular, ex- 

 cept on its upper side, is dark brown ; half 

 way between the reniform and the inner 

 margin is a short, dark line ; near the base of 

 the wing, and extending half-way across it, is 

 a narrow transverse line, and thei'e are three 

 other narro -v transverse lines, the first nearly 

 direct, and situated before the orbicular ; the 

 second much curved, and situated beyond the 

 reniform ; and the third oblique, and parallel 

 with the hind margin : just within this last 

 is a transverse pale cloud, in general very 

 conspicuous, but not reaching either the 

 costal or inner margin: the hind wings are 

 brownish-gray, with a slight indication of a 

 crescentic discoidal spot ; their fringe is pale 

 and tinged with pink : the head, thorax, and 

 body are gray-brown, often inclining to red, 

 the scales are long, giving the thorax and 

 body a woolly appearance. 



The EGG is laid in the spring, and the 

 CATKRPILLAR feeds on sallow (Salix caprea), 

 white- thorn (Cratcegus <jxyactmtha) y Q$k. (Quer- 

 cus -Kobur), and many other trees and shrubs. 

 Mr. Doubleday has observed it feeding on 

 laurel in his own garden. When full-fed, 

 which is usually in June, it falls off the food- 

 plant if annoyed, and feigns death, rolling itself 

 into a compact ring, with the head on one side. 

 The head is glabrous, and narrower than the 

 body; the body is obese, uniformly cylindrical, 

 and quite smooth. The colour of the head 

 is pale transparent apple green, with black 

 ocelli ; of the body delicate apple-green, with 

 a borad and very conspicuous stripe on each 

 side, of a pale glaucous-green, approaching to 

 white ; this stripe commences immediately 

 behind the head, and terminates in the anal 

 claspers ; it passes below the first and ninth 

 spiracles, but includes all the rest, and is gra- 

 dually attenuated towards both extremities : 

 there is a very narrow pale yellow medio- 

 dorsal stripe ; and exactly intermediate be- 

 tween this and the broad lateral stripe is 

 anothervery narrow pale yellow stripe, less con- 

 tinuous and less distinct; there are numerous 



