GEOMETERS. 



body is uniformly cylindrical, without 

 imps or warts. The colour of the head is 

 ?llowish green, with mottled black markings ; 

 body is yellowish or bright green, with 

 ro black dorsal stripes scarcely so broad as 

 green median space between them ; the 

 piracies are black ; the legs and claspers pale 

 all parts of the body emit fine short 

 scattered black hairs. It feeds on lady's 

 bedstraw ( Galium verutn"), and is full-fed by 

 the end of August, when it spins a slight web 

 among the leaves or flowers, and changes to a 

 short obese CHRYSALIS, the wing-cases of which 

 are very ample, and of a dark brown colour ; 

 the body is reddish. 



The MOTH flies in June. I have taken it in 

 Birchwood, Kent, and Mr. Brown has sent me 

 the caterpillar from Cambridgeshire, but it is 

 a very local insect in England, and I do not 

 hear of its occurrence in Scotland or Ireland. 

 (The scientific name is Anticlca sinuata.) 



329. The Flame (Anticlca rubidata). 



329. THE FLAME. The fore wings have 

 small triangular dark brown blotch at the 

 se, edged with white ; then a rust-coloured 

 ind, then a dark brown bar delicately edged 

 both sides with white, and having a dis- 

 tinct discoidal spot attached to its outer 

 margin, and this also is generally edged with 

 white ; then a brown-gray band, which some- 

 times bears a rust-coloured shade about the 

 middle, then a dark brown bar, very distinct 

 at the costa, but continued to the inner margin 

 only as a zigzag black line ; and lastly a broad 

 rust-coloured marginal band, intersected by a 

 slender scalloped pale gray line : the hind 

 wings are grayish brown with transverse 

 waved lines, both darker and lighter; the 

 head, thorax, and body are grayish brown, the 

 body having a pale margin, and two darker 

 spots on each segment. 



The EGGS are laid at the erfd of June or 

 beginning of July, on the great hedge bed- 

 straw (Galium mollngo], and other species of 

 the same genus ; they are hatched in ten or 

 twelve days. 



The CATERPILLARS are full-fed in August, 

 and then rest in nearly a straight position. 

 The head is semi-porrect, of almost exactly 

 the same width as the body, and the body of 

 uniform thickness throughout and cylindrical. 

 The colour of the head is smoky-brown, with 

 a brown Y-shaped mark on the face, pointed 

 backwards, and several black dots and hairs ; 

 the body is red, brown, or gray, but in either 

 case beautifully variegated ; on the body is a 

 median series of five lozenge-shaped or arrow- 

 headed markings, each having a dark centre, 

 a pale disk, and a slightly darker margin ; 

 beyond and in continuation of these, and ex- 

 tending from the ninth segment to the anal 

 flap, is a medio-dorsal black stripe ; the entire 

 back may be described as having five longi- 

 tudinal stripes; of these the medio-dorsal 

 passes through and partly comprises the arrow- 

 headed markings and the black stripe already 

 described : the remaining stripes are some- 

 what sinuous, of a reddish brown colour, and 

 bordered on each side by black dots ; the legs 

 are paler, the claspers slightly darker. It 

 goes into the ground to change to a CHRYSALIS, 

 and forms a small earthen cocoon. 



The MOTH flies in June, and occurs in several 

 counties north, south, east, and west, but I 

 think neither in Scotland nctr Ireland. (The 

 scientific name is Ant idea rubidata.} 



330. The Shoulder Stripe (Anticlea badtuta). 



330. THE SHOULDER STRIPE. The fore 

 wings are sienna-brown, with the base and a 

 broad hind-marginal band umber-brown, and 

 a median band pale wainscot-brown ; this 



