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BRITISH MOTHS. 



sometim es interrupted median transverse band ; 

 halfway between this and the hind margin 

 Li a second band still less dietinct and paler ; 

 on the hind margin is a series of dark dots : 

 the hind wings are very pale ochreous-white 

 with a large black discoidal spot and a broad 

 black hind-marginal band, which is interrupted 

 by a pale ochreous spot about the middle ; the 

 fringe is pale : the head, thorax, and body are 

 of the same colour as the fore wings. 



The CATERPILLAR is described by Guenee as 

 straw-colour, strongly striated with reddish- 

 brown, and having a broad continuous medio- 

 dorsal stripe of a violet-brown colour ; the 

 spiracular stripe is concolorous and margined 

 below with brown ; on every segment there 

 is a broad transverse reddish spot which 

 reaches from one spiracular stripe to the 

 other ; the spiracles are black ; the head is 

 very pale, the crown covered with black dots : 

 it feeds on a great number of low-growing 

 plants, especially the common yellow snap- 

 dragon (Linaria vulgaris). 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 has been taken in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, 

 Surrey, Kent, Suffolk, and also, it is said, in 

 Yorkshire. (The scientific name is Hdiothis 

 dipsaceus.) 



680. The Broad-bordered White Underwing (Anarta 

 melanopa). 



680. THE BROAD-BORDERED WHITE UNDER- 

 WING. The palpi are porrected and clothed 

 with bristle-like scales, the terminal joint 

 having the same character ; the antennae are 

 slender and simple in both sexes : the fore 

 wings are nearly straight on the costa, pro- 

 duced at the tip, and obliquely convex on the 

 hind margin; their colour is smoky-gray, 

 clouded, and transversely lined with black ; 

 the discoidal spots are inconspicuous, but still 

 readily to be traced ; the fringe is spotted 

 black and white : the hind wings have a 

 broad band of smoky-black on the hind and 



inner margins, and a black crescentic discoidal 

 spot ; the median disk and fringe are white : 

 the head, thorax, and body are smoky-black, 

 the last a little varied with gray. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in June, and 

 so far as Great Britain is concerned, it was 

 first discovered by Mr. Hewitson, in the 

 Shetland Islands, and subsequently by Mr. 

 Weaver, at Ran nock, in Perthshire. (The 

 scientific name is Anarta, melanopa.') 



681. The Small Dark Yellow Underwing 

 (Anarta cordigera). 



681. THE SMALL DARK YELLOW UNDER- 

 WING. The palpi are porrected and rather 

 conspicuous ; the second joint is clothed with 

 bristly scales but is very slender at the base; 

 the terminal joint is also very scaly ; the an- 

 tennse are simple in both sexes; the fore- 

 wings are straight on the costa and blunt at 

 the tip, their colour is smoky-black ; the reni- 

 form is white and very conspicuous, the 

 orbicular obsolete ; there are two slender zig- 

 zag gray lines, one before the usual site of the 

 orbicular, the other beyond the reniform ; the 

 fringe is spotted with black and white ; the 

 hind wings are yellow, with a black marginal 

 band and a white fringe ; the head is black, 

 the thorax black, with two minute discoidal 

 white dots, and a larger one in the situation of 

 the scutellum ; the body is black and hirsute. 



The CATERPILLAR is reddish-ochreous, the 

 medio-dorsal stripe is brownish-ochreous, with 

 an oblique brownish streak meeting it on each 

 segment; the spiracular line is whitish an- 

 teriorly, the spots and spiracles are white 

 (Nub.). It feeds on Vaccinium. (Staintoris 

 Manual, vol. i., 293.) 



The MOTH appears on the wing in May, and, 

 so far as Great Britain is concerned, has only 

 been taken at Rannoch, in Perthshire. (The 

 scientific name is Anarta cordigera.') 



