NOOTUAS. 



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77.1. T'-o Black Neck (Toxocampa Pnstinum). 



711. THE BLACK N^CK. The palpi are por- 

 reeted, th.( second joint stout and moderately 

 .ong, the terminal joint short, naked, and 

 |)ointd ; the antennae are slightly ciliated ; 

 the fore wings are nearly straight on the costa, 

 bin no at the tip, and waved on the hind 

 iiiiirgin ; their colour is pale brownish-gray 

 freckled with minute transverse short lines ; 

 the orbicular is represented by a brown dot ; 

 the reniform is dark velvety brown, with one 

 or sometimes two short oblique lines of the 

 same colour ; the wing-rays are concolorous 

 with the general area, but there is a trans- 

 verse shade beyond the reniform slightly 

 darker 1 than the general area: the hind wings, 

 face, thorax, and body are pale gray-brown ; 

 the crown of the head and collar are rich 

 velvety brown. 



The CATERPILLAR has a small, rather po! 1 

 and rather porrected head, a long and leech 

 like body considerably attenuated at the an- 

 terior extremity ; the colour of the head is 

 smoky-gray; the body has seven distinct 

 stripes, all of them rather narrow ; the medio- 

 dorsal is ochreous-yellow, the next on each 

 side black, the next yellow, the next and last 

 on each side plumbeous-gray, and including 

 several black dots and spots ; all these stripes 

 are bordered with white; the ventral surface, 

 legs, and claspers are very dark smoke -coloured, 

 almost black. It feeds on the purple vetch 

 ( Vicia cracca). 



The MOTH appears on the wing in June, and 

 is by no means generally distributed in this 

 country; it occurs in Cornwall, Devon, Somer- 

 set, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey, Kent, 

 Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, 

 and has been reported from the lake district 

 and Yorkshire. (The scientific name in Toxo- 

 campa Pastinum.) 



712. The New Black Neck (Toxocampa Craccoe). 



712. T-IE NEW BLACK NECK. "! he palpi 

 are porre*. .eJ, the second joint being htout and 

 moderately long, the third shoi t, naked, and 

 pointed : the antennae are slightly ciliated : the 

 fore wings are straight on the costa, bluntatthe 

 tip, and slightly waved on the hind margin ; 

 their colour is pale brownish-gray suffused 

 with a purple tinge and freckled with minute 

 trans ve r e darker lines ; the reniform is re- 

 presented by a cluster of dark-brown spots; 

 the orbicular is scarcely perceptible; there 

 are four equidistant brown spots on the costa; 

 there is a transverse shade beyond the reni- 

 form, and the wing-rays, which are very pale, 

 are shown conspicuously in passing through 

 this : the hind wings are pale gray-brown ; 

 the face and disk of the thorax and body are 

 also pale gray-brown, but the crown of the 

 head and the collar are dark rich velvety 

 brown. 



Mi . BucklerthusdescribesthecATERPiLLAR : 

 " When full grown it is an inch and a quarter 

 to an inch and a half in length. When viewed 

 from above it tapers towards the head, and 

 still more towards the posterior end ; but 

 when seen sideways it appears almost uni- 

 formly long and slender. Its manner of crawl- 

 ing is a partial looping of the fii-st six seg- 

 ments ; the first two ventral claspers are very 

 slightly shorter than the others, but to such 

 an extent as to be scarcely noticeably so, and 

 it generally assumes an undulating posture in 

 repose along the stem of its food-planf . Along 

 the back, commencing on its head, is a dark 

 brown, veiy finely mottled broad stripe, widest 

 along the middle segment, and with an addi- 

 tional widening on the eleventh segment ; in 

 the centre of this is a thin, rather pale stripe, 

 enclosing the very dark brown dorsal line. 

 The subdorsal stripes are double, brown, witi> 



