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>wards the hind margin ; the principal wing- 

 ays are also dark ; the thorax varies in colour 

 ith the fore wings, being generally pale in 



the males and dark in the females : the body 

 is putty-coloured in the males, gray-brown in 

 the females. 



Caterpillars of the Turnip Moth (A grot-is Segetum), feeding in the interior of a Turnip. 



The EGG is laid in June, either on the ground j 

 or on some plant, generally a seedling, close to 

 the ground; hatched in this position, the young 



caterpillar is enabled to attack the young 

 turnips, carrots, cabbage-plants, charlock, man- 

 gold-wurzel, radish, and a number of the 



EDWARD NEWMAN'S BRITISH) 

 MOTHS. No. 21. PBICB 6u. j 



' LONDON : R. HARDWICKE,- 

 192, PICCADILLY. 



