BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 



segment. It is double-brooded, the second succession 

 appearing in July and August. 



Buff-Tip.— (P/za/^fl hucephala.) The Buff-Tip (Fig. 

 15) is so-called because, as the name implies, the edges of 

 the forewings are tipped with buff as if, when handling, 

 the scaly-dust had been thumbed off. There is a double 

 row of perpendicular wavy lines plainly dividing the 

 buff-tip patch from the purplish-brown markings of the 

 remaining portion of the forewings, the hindwings 

 being whitish. June and July sees it abroad, but it is a 



typical night-flier, and so harmonises with its sur- 

 roundings, and assumes such a position, that detection 

 by day is a difficult problem. The whitish eggs are laid 

 in batches, and the somewhat furry larva is found on 

 several different kinds of bushes or trees in early Autumn. 

 The larva is yellow in colour, but has a black head and 

 lines, that along the back being the most prominent. 

 I have seen whole branches of oak trees stripped of their 

 leaves by a colony of these ravenous larvae. 



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