CONSPICUOUS INSECTS OF SUMMER-TIME 



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bordered Five-Spot Burnet .A[utli {/y- 

 gcBua Loniccrce). 



This is a particularly interesting moth 

 for the tyro in entomology to observe, 

 because it apparently offers some contra- 



in a general way are creatures of the 

 dusk and night, but here is one of the 

 many exceptions to that rule. Also, 

 the antennai should be observed. These, 

 at first glance, appear to be clubbed at 



FEMALE SILVER-WASHED FKITILLARY BUTTERFLY CLIMBING A CLOVER STEM. 



dictions to general rules. In the first 

 place we have here a moth that possesses 

 colours as brilliant as those of a butterfly, 

 and also behaves like a butterfly, flying 

 only during brilliant sunshine and resting 

 during dull days and at night. Moths 



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their ends, like those of butterflies ; care- 

 ful observation, however, will show that, 

 although they are thickened somewhat, 

 the actual end of the club is ]iointed, as 

 in all other British moths. The attitude 

 assumed when resting, too, is that of a 



