LEPIDOPTEKA. 



267 



M. Maurice Girard says, in his work on the Metamorphoses of 

 Insects, that the females of these moths can easily be found at the 



Fig. 265. Cheimatobia brumata, male. 



Fig. 266 Cheimatobia 

 brumata, female. 



beginning of November, in a very strange place, namely, on the 

 gas lamps of the public promenades ; for instance, along the roads 

 in the Bois de Boulogne. No doubt they had climbed up to this 

 height, attracted by the light, or perhaps had been carried thither 

 by the males, which fly, having wings. 



In February and March appear other analogous species. " One 

 finds," says M. Maurice Girard, " near Paris, in the meadows which 

 surround the confluence of the Seine and the Marne, at the end of 



Fig. 267. Nyssia zonaria, male and female. 



the month of March, the Nyssia zonaria (Fig. 267), the males of 

 which insect remain during the day motionless on the grass." * 



There are some species of this family in which the wings of the 

 females are developed like those of the males, f Such are the 

 Peppere moth (Amphidasis betularia) and the Currant moth 



* With us this insect has a very limited range, being only found at New Brighton, 

 near Birkenhead, where it is most abundant. ED. 



f The exception is with those in which the wings are not developed in both cases, 

 and ia England this peculiarity is confined to species appearing during the winter 

 and early spring. ED. 



