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INSECTS AT HOXE. 



but there are one or two points about it which are the same in 

 all the varieties. The upper wings are always brown of some 

 shade, and much darker than the lower pair. Each of the 

 upper wings has in the middle a little button-like tuft of 

 greyish-white scales, from which the popular name of Button 

 Moth is derived ; and along the lower edge of the wings there 

 is a streak or dash of the same hue. 



LIX 



1. Epliippitiliora fenolla. 2. Ephippiphora sf^ntulnna. 3. Peronea cristana. 



4. Cnephasia octomacnlana. 5. Xanthosetia zoegana. » 



This Moth is not rare, though it is rather local, occurring in 

 some profusion in those spots wherein it takes up its residence. 

 Woods and forests are the localities which it generally pre- 

 fers, and it appears from the end of summer throughout the 

 autumn. 



The very conspicuous Notchwing (Teras caudana) deserves 

 a short description, on account of tlie peculiarity of the upper 



