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BRITISH MOTHS. 



of Brussels, that it spins the leaves of the 

 whortleberry together, and resides in the 

 domicile thus formed, after the manner of so 

 many of the Tor trices. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in June, but 

 is confined, as far as my information extends, 

 to one English county, Devonshire, and to the 

 neighbourhood of Killarney, in Ireland. (The 

 scientific name is Eupithecia debiliata.} 



303. The Dentated Pug (Collix sparsala). 



303. THE DEXTATED Pro. The antennae are 

 slightly pubescent in the male, quite simple 

 in the female ; the fore wings are ample, 

 slightly falcate, and pointed towards the tip, 

 and they have a sinuous hind margin : their 

 colour is dingy grayish-brown, with a distinct, 

 discoidal spot, and a dark costal margin, 

 forming almost a costal stripe, but having its 

 inferior edge very irregular; this postal stripe 

 is interrupted at two-thirds of its length by a 

 double pale gray spot ; beyond this pale gray 

 marking is a transverse series of black spots or 

 dots, all of them seated on wing-rays, and 

 more especially on that particular ray nearest 

 the inner margin ; there is a pale, but in some 

 specimens extremely indistinct, zigzag line, 

 parallel to the hind margin, and this termi- 

 nates in a gray spot near the anal angle ; the 

 hind wings have five of their seven parallel 

 rays produced into angles on the hind margin ; 

 the exceptions are the filth and seventh, 

 counting from the anal angle ; this structure 

 gives a scalloped appearance to the margin of 

 the wing ; the tint is exactly the same as that 

 of the fore wings, but there are a number of 

 pale gray, as well as darker markings, above 

 tht- anal angle, and extending considerably 

 into the disk of the wing. 



" The CATERPILLAR is pale green, with five 



white dorsal lines, and a broad yellow spira- 



cular line (Tr , it feeds on Lysimachia 



ru!ffari*."Sta ' , nta ^ vo ]_ ^ p 93 



The KOTH appears on the wing in June; 



my specimens came from the Cambridge col- 

 lectors, but I am not sure of the exact locality ; 

 I have not heard of its occurrence in Scotland 

 or Ireland. (The scientific name is Collix 

 spar sat a.} 



304. The Small Seraphim (Lobophora sexalisata). 



304. THE SMALL SEKAPHTH. The antenna? 

 are simple in both sexes ; the fore wings me 

 brownish-gray, with four paler trans- 

 bars ; the first of these is very short and 

 indistinct ; it is situated near the base of the 

 wing ; the second bar is placed rather before, 

 and the third rather beyond the middle of the 

 wing; both of these are oblique, bent, and 

 double, that is, intersected throughout by a 

 slender waved ochreous line ; the fourth is 

 slender waved and single, and should, perhaps, 

 be more properly called a line than a bar ; the 

 space between the two double bars is smoky- 

 gray towards the costal, pale gray towards the 

 inner margin, and just beyond the first double 

 bar is the discoidal spot, distinct, oblong, 

 black, and surrounded by a white margin ; 

 the space between the second double bar and 

 the hind margin is smoky-gray : the hind 

 wings are gray, with an indistinct darker bar 

 across the middle, and a gradually darker hind 

 margin. 



The CATERPILLAR rests in a nearly straight 

 position, generally stretched at full length on 

 the mid-rib of the leaf of its food-plant, the 

 head being tucked in and the mouth concealed 

 between the first pair of legs. It does not fall 

 from its food, or feign death, on being dis- 

 turbed. The head is rather narrower than 

 the body, and distinctly divided into two 

 rounded lobes on the crown ; the body is 

 uniformly cylindrical, without excrescences, 

 but a good deal wrinkled, and the thirteenth 

 segment terminates in two divaricating points 

 directed backwards. The colour of the head 

 is opaque yellowish green ; of the body, apple- 

 tt, with three indistinct whitish 



