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BRITISH MOTHS. 



elongated mark of the same colour ; the hind 

 Willis have two faintly indicated waved lines 

 parallel with the hind margin, and a series of 

 slender dark marking* on the margin itself; 

 head, thorax, and body white. 



The female, who has a long ovipositor, 

 well adapted for the purpose, deposits her 

 eggs in May and June, either in the crevices 

 of tbo hark or the axils of the leaves of the 

 younger shoots both of the blackthorn and 

 the Mrd-cherry. 



The young C.VTKKPILLARS emerge in about 

 fourteen days, and are at first of a deep yellow 

 colour; they soon change to given, and often- 

 times assume a broad medio-dorsal stripe of 

 pale yellow, -which, after the last moult, 

 changes as described below. The caterpillar 

 is full-fed at the end of July, when it iv 

 a nearly straight position, with the head por- 

 rected on a plane with the body. Head flat, 

 narrower than thesecond segment, not notched 

 on the crown : body smooth, velvety, uni- 

 formly cylindrical. Colour of the head pale 

 green, semi-transparent, with a large pear- 

 shaped spot on each cheek, the smaller ex- 

 tremity of which approaches the nioutli, the 

 larger extremity the crown . this spot is 

 orange-red in the centre, and black on the 

 margin ; dorsal surface of the body grass- 

 green, with a medio-dorsal series of elongate 

 orange spots, which occur at the interstices of 

 the segments, and are continuous only on the 

 third and twelfth segments ; these spots are 

 bordered on both sides with rich brown : the 

 second and thirteenth segments are not thus 

 decorated ; the dorsal surface is also sparingly 

 dotted with glaucous-given, approaching to 

 white: oi^the sides are a series of spiraeie- 

 like black dots, the spiracles themselves being 

 brown, and each sin-rounded by a glaucous 

 ring; the- ventral surface is pale glaueo; 

 de transparent green : the elasper- 

 given, with pink extremities; it spins a slight 

 D, and remains in the CIIKYSAUS state 

 through-nit the winter and until the following 

 when the MOTH emerges. It is not un- 

 common in Kngland. and is abundant at Kil- 

 y. in Ireland. ^The scientific name is 



20~2. The \Yhito-pinion Spotted (CVn/i'i'a taminahi). 



JO'J. Tin: "\YiiiTK-rixiox SrorrK.n. The 

 antenna> are simple in both sexes : all the 

 wings are white, the lore wings having two 

 brown and obscurely triangular markings on 

 the costal margin ; the lirst of these is situated 

 at rather more than a third of the distance 

 bet \\een the base and the tip of the wii \ 

 the second is just half way between the tirst 

 and the tip : the head, thorax, and body are 

 white. 



The r.vTK.uriu.AK is <jjreen or purplish brown ; 

 it has a broad purple stripe down the middle 

 of the back, edged with white : thespiraeular 

 line white, the spiracles black. ! 

 wild cherry. 



The MOTH occurs, but not commonly, in 

 May. in the south of Kngland. more rarely in 

 the north. ^lr. Birehall says it is abundant 

 in Ireland. (The scientific name 

 ta ininata.) 



The Sloe Car; 



_(:>. Tin: SLOE r \KIT.T. The antenn:v are 

 simple in both sexes; the fore \vii>_ 

 smoke-coloured, with two transverse waved 

 darker lines, and a central transversely elon- 

 gated spot of the same colour, exactly mid- 

 n them : the hind wings are paler, 

 with a very indistinct waved line aci\ 

 middle ; head, thorax, and body g: 



M r. Stainton has most obligingly handed me 

 the following description of the rvn:i;ru.i.\n. 



i by Mr. K. (.!. Baldwin : r.ro\. 

 gray, more or less marbled with whitish, par- 

 ticularly on the eighth and ninth segm< 

 faint, blackish. V-like mark on the hack of the 

 tilth, sixth, seventh, and eighth segments, and 

 a black transverse line on the twelfth segment; 



