GEOMETEES. 



Ill 



occur on the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, 

 ninth, tenth, and eleventh segments; the apex 

 of each mark points towards the head ; the 

 sides of these marks ore not quite closed at 

 this point, hut allow the passage of a fawn- 

 coloured stripe which expands immediately 

 after entering the area enclosed by the V, and 

 is again restricted to a mere line, where it 

 approaches the boundary of the segment ; the 

 remainder of the area enclosed by the V is 

 of a lovely rose-colour ; each side of the T is 

 bordered with rich brown; anterior to each V, 

 that is, adjoining the anterior margin of each 

 segment, are four short parallel lines, pale in 

 the brown variety, perfectly white in the 

 green one ; the lateral skinfold in both varie- 

 ties is almost white, and thrown up in bold 

 relief by contrast with the ground colour 

 immediately adjoining it; the belly is of the 

 prevalent ground colour ; the legs are semi- 

 transparent and pinkish ; the claspers of the 

 prevailing ground colour. It spins a slight 

 cocoon amongst the leaves of its food-plant, and 

 changes to a CHRYSALIS in May. 



The MOTH appears on the wing about mid- 

 summer, and is very abundant in the northern 

 counties of England, as Durham, Lancashire, 



imberland, &c., and also in Scotland ; it is 



?nerally distributed in Ireland. (The scicn- 



ic name is Larentia ccesiata.} 



a medic-dorsal series of triangular red spots, 

 each of the spots edged with white. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 is confined to a few localities, in Lancashire, 

 Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and Perth- 

 shire ; it has not yet been discovered in Ire- 

 land. (The scientific name is Larentia rufi- 

 cinctata.'} 



Ols. In reference to the extreme difficulty 

 experienced by southern entomologists in ob- 

 taining this and other northern species, I 

 strongly recommend the collectors of our 

 British lepidoptera to make their wants, as 

 well as their superabundance, known through 

 the pages of "The Entomologist:" by this 

 means alone can anything approaching a per- 

 fect collection be formed. I have established 

 that little Journal with this especial object, 

 and also for the convenience of answering 

 any questions as to names, &c. It only costs 

 sixpence a month, and is a means of com- 

 munication between all our principal ento- 

 mologists ; the miscellaneous information it 

 contains would be out of place in a systematic 

 work like the present. 



244. Thn Yellow-ringed Carpet (Larentia rnjichietato). 



244. THE YELLOW-RIXGED CARPET. The 

 antenna) are almost simple in both sexes ; the 

 fore wings are grayish lead-colour, with five 

 transverse yellowish bars equidistant from each 

 other, and also numerous clotted lines ; the 

 hind wings are paler lead-colour, with obscure 

 darker bars towards the hind margin. 



The CATERPILLAR, according to Freyer, feeds 

 on the white meadow saxifrage, in May ; it is 

 of a tawny or olive-green ground colour, with 



245 The Striped Twin-spot Carpet (Larentia sali- 

 cata]. 



245. THK STRIPED TWIN-SPOT CARPET.' The 

 antenna? are pubescent in the male, simple in 

 the female ; the fore wings are grayish lead- 

 colour, with numerous zigzag transverse 

 markings, some of which iinite in forming a 

 transverse median bar, which is divided by a 

 paler space, enclosing a dark dot near its 

 costal extremity ; the hind wings are pale lead- 

 colour, with darker waved markings near the 

 hind margin. 



The CATERPILLAR, in a state of nature, feeds 

 on several species of bedstraw, and in confine- 

 ment it not only feeds on bedstraw, but thrives 

 equally well on sweet woodroof, a plant much 

 to be recommended as growing luxuriantly in 



