LEPIDOPTERA. 267i 
M. Maurice Girard says, in his work on the Metamorphoses of 
Insects, that the females of these moths can easily be found at the 








Fig. 265.—Chimatobia brumata, male. Fig. 266.—Chimatobia 
brumata, female. 
beginning of November, in a very strange place, namely, on the 
gas lamps of the public promenades ; for instance, along the roads 
in the Bois de Boulogne. No doubt they had climbed up to this 
height, attracted by the light, or perhaps had been carried thither 
by the males, which fly, having wings. 
In February and March appear other analogous species. ‘‘ One 
finds,” says M. Maurice Girard, “near Paris, in the meadows which 
surround the confluence of the Seine and the Marne, at the end of 

Fig, 267.—Nyssia zonaria, male and female. 
the month of March, the Vyssia zonaria (Fig. 267), the males of 
which insect remain during the day motionless on the grass.” * 
There are some species of this family in which the wings of the 
females are developed like those of the males.+ Such are the 
Peppered Moth (Amphidasis betularia) and the Currant Moth 
* With us this insect has a very limited range, being only found at New Brighton, 
near Birkenhead, where it is most abundant.—Ep. 
+ The exception is with those in which the wings are zot developed in both cases, 
and in England this peculiarity is confined to species appearing during the winter 
and early spring.—Ep. : 
