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BRITISH MOTHS. 



373. The Manchester Treble-bar (Cursia imbutata). 



373. THE MANCHESTER TREBLE-BAR. The 

 palpi are very scaly, porrected, and the points 

 slightly deflected in the form of a hooked beak : 

 the antennae of the male are piibescent ; the 

 fore wings are slightly pointed, and their costa 

 is perfectly straight ; their colour is ashy-gray 

 with a short oblique brown line near the base, 

 and a broad median band of an umber-brown 

 colour, and doubly augulated on its outer 

 margin ; this band opens at both extremities, 

 and includes a gray space at each end ; some- 

 times the gray spaces unite and form a pale 

 band within the dark' one ; both margins of 

 the median band are slenderly bordered with 

 white ; the broad hind-marginal area is clouded 

 with purple-brown, and surrounding each of the 

 two principal angles of the median band is a 

 suffused blotch of a brickdust red colour : the 

 hind wings are gray-brown : the head, thorax, 

 and body are cinereous gray. 



The CATERPILLAR feeds on the cranberry 

 ( Vaccinium oxyeoccos) ; I have never seen it. 

 Freyer describes it as " reddish yellow, with 

 three wide stripes down the back ; spiracular 

 line yellowish white." Stainton's Manual, 

 vol. ii. p. 120. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 is very local. I have it from the neighbour- 

 hood of Manchester, where it appears abun- 

 dant ; it has been received from Scotland, and 



Mr. Birchall has taken it at Howthin Ireland. 

 (The scientific name is Carsia imbutata.'] 



374. The Treble -bar (Anaitts plagiata). 



374. THE TREBLE BAR. The antenna) are 

 simple in both sexes ; the fore wings are ample 

 and rather pointed at the tips ; they are of a 

 distinct dove-colour, and traversed by trans- 

 verse markings, the first of which is near the 

 base, and is sharply bent as it crosses the sub- 

 costal ray ; it is rather broad at the costal 

 margin, very narrow and linear at the inner 

 margin, it opens at the flexure and contains a 

 small dove-coloured space ; the second marking 

 is rather before the middle of the wing, and 

 may be called a triple bar ; it is single at the 

 costal, and triple at the inner margin ; the 

 third may also be called a triple bar ; it has 

 two sharp angles on the outer side ; as it ap- 

 proaches the inner margin it bends slightly 

 towards the anal angle of the wing; just on 

 the costal margin the three lines forming this 

 bar are united ; there is a short longitudinal 

 black streak at the base of the wing, four faint 

 transverse lines between the first and second 

 of the principal markings (two of them very 

 imperfect), a faint linear discoidal spot between 

 the second and third (triple) bars, three faint 

 lines between the third (triple) bar and the 

 hind margin, and finally, a short oblique black 

 streak running from the tip of the wing, and 

 terminating in a little rust-coloured cloud be- 

 fore it reaches the upper angle of the triple 

 bar : the hind wings are smoky-gray, with a 



