I3KITI8H MOTHS. 



of the lull-ted caterpillar being only acquired 

 by slow degrees. 



They are full-fed in about a month, and 

 then invariably rest with the back much arched, 

 the head almost entirely withdrawn into the 

 second segment, the feet directed forwards, 

 and the claspers tenaciously adhering to the 

 slender flower-stalks of the food-plant. The 

 head is narrower than the second segment, 

 highly glabrous, the face flattened, the crown 

 slightly notched : the body is obese, deeply 

 incised at the divisions of the segments ; the 

 thoracic segments, namely, the second, third, 

 and fourth, are dilated at the sides, and the 

 second segment also in front ; the dorsal areas 

 of these three segments unite in forming a 

 shield ; the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 

 and tenth segments have each a transverse 

 dorsal ridge, very prominent and conspicuous, 

 which terminates on each side in a kind of 

 lobe or festoon, containing the spiracle : the 

 ventral area has also gibbous projections, 

 somewhat corresponding with those on the 

 back, bnt proportionally less, in order to 

 allow ot the arched position in which the 

 caterpillar usually rests ; scattered over the 

 dorsal area are minute warts, few in number 

 and very inconspicuous in appearance ; each 

 of these emits a small bristle. The colour of 

 the head is apple-green, the cheeks being 

 sparingly and inconspicuously sprinkled Avith 

 black : the body is apple-green ; the crest of 

 each dorsal ridge is of a rich velvety oil-green, 

 tli us forming a series of conspicuous transverse 

 bands, the interstices being pale apple-green ; 

 the lateral lobes or festoons are in some speci- 

 mens apple-green, but in others of a most 

 beautiful rose-colour, and this again is bordered 

 below by the most intense velvety black ; this 

 black border descends into the anal, but not 

 into the ventral claspers ; the dorsal area of 

 the tenth and twelfth segments is smoke- 

 coloured, fading at the lateral margin into 

 green, and there decorated with blotches of 

 rose-colour ; the spiracles are reddish ; the 

 ventral area, legs and claspers are delicate 

 apple-green; the hairs or bristles are black. 

 At the end of August most of these caterpillars 

 spin up amongst the flowers of the food-plant ; 



! others descend to the surface of the earth, 



; and there change into short, obese, glabrous 



fiiursALiDs, having the head rather projecting 



and rounded, the thorax very convex, the 



wing-cases ample, and the anal segment very 



i slender and horn-like, directed backwards, 



, and bearing at its extremity two stout divari- 



! eating bristles. The colour of the head, thorax, 



j and wing-cases is transparent olive-green, of 



: the abdomen testaceous brown. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, 

 and is only known to have occurred in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, more especially near. Chatteris. 

 (The scientific name is Cidarin sngittatu.'] 



355. THE COMMON MAKBLED CARPET. The 

 palpi are short, connivent, and form a short 

 beak ; the antenna? are nearly simple in 

 both sexes ; the fore wings are ample and 

 somewhat pointed at the tip; their colour is 

 very varied ; there is a large smoky-brown 

 space at the base, intersected but scarcely 

 interrupted by a sienna-brown bar ; the 

 middle area of the wing is whitish gray, 

 and includes on its whitest part a narrow 

 oblique discoidal spot, and two or more 

 irregular transverse lines, in addition to 

 similar boundary lines, the exterior of which 

 j is produced in the middle into a triple blunt 

 lobe ; adjoining this lobed black line is a zigzag 

 white line dilated at the costa ; this is followed 

 by a sienna-brown bar, and this by a broad 

 hind-marginal smoky-brown baud, which is 

 intersected throughout by a zigzag white line 

 and other markings too numerous and too 

 obscure to describe : the hind wings are pale 

 gray-brown : the head and thorax arc very 

 much of the same colour as the base of the 

 fore wings ; the body is of the same colour as 

 the hind wings. 



It seems absolutely necessary in this and 

 some other moths to mention that more than 

 one book species are included under the name : 

 I will call them varieties. 



Obs. Both the English and scientific names 

 of the varieties in this and the following 

 species, are taken from Haworth ; the names 

 of the species, which combine and include the 

 varieties, are from Doubleday's List. 



