LEPIDOPTERA. 



485 



perfect creature of which is used by fly-fishers to catch trout in the 



evening, is found in the garden. 



The perfect male insect of the 

 Orgyia antiqua is a winged moth, 

 but the female has no wings. The 

 caterpillars live upon fruit and rose- 

 trees, and they sometimes exist in 

 such numbers that they fall to the 

 ground by hundreds. 



Fig. 1070. — Caterpillar of Biown-tail Moth. Fig. 1071. — Magpie Moth. 



A very common insect in gardens is the large Magpie Moth {Abraxas 

 grossulariata, fig. 1071). Sometimes the caterpillars utterly destroy 

 all the leaves of the currant and gooseberry trees. The caterpillar 

 forms curious loops, and has black spots down the back. In my 

 garden it has fortunately never been at all numerous, but I have been 

 informed that it may be destroyed by the powder of hellebore. The 

 figure is from the excellent 

 book on British Moths by 

 Newman. 



Our apples are at times 

 injured by a caterpillar 

 which lives in the interior 

 of the fruit, and which J 

 causes it to ripen prema- 

 turely and to drop from the 

 tree. The caterpillar then 

 works its way out, when it undergoes its metamorphosis, and becomes 

 changed into a small moth, the Codlin Moth [Tortrix (carpocapsa). 

 pomonana, fig. 1072). 



Fig. 1072.— Codlin Moth. 



