DAY-FLYING MOTHS 



These are the Broad-bordered and the Narrow-bor- 

 dered. The former is found in marshes and meadows, 

 and the latter in and around woods. 



Three other species are very local. One is the New 

 Forest Burnet and is like a small specimen of the Broad- 

 border. In England it is confined to certain limited 

 areas, of a somewhat marshy character, in the district 

 from which it receives its name. Another species is 

 the Transparent Burnet, which is found in localities 

 near the coast in some parts of Scotland, Ireland, and 

 Wales. It was first noticed in Ireland, and was there- 

 fore called the Irish Burnet. The third of these very 

 local kinds is the Scotch Burnet, which seems to be 

 peculiar to the Aberdeenshire mountains. 



Of the Foresters only three species are known to 

 occur in Britain. The English names of these are the 

 Green Forester, the Scarce Forester, and the Small or 

 Cistus Forester. All have golden or coppery-green 

 bodies and forewings, and greyish hindwings. The 

 first mentioned is the most widely distributed and is 

 usually found in moist meadows. It is, however, curi- 

 ously restricted to some particular portion of the field 

 in which it occurs. The pink flowers of the Ragged 

 Robin seem to be a favourite resting-place, and when it 

 is thus reposing it is less easily seen than one would 

 imagine. Under the influence of sunshine it is very 

 active on the wing, but rarely flies far from its breeding 



81 6 



