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a red spot, edged with white, at the lower corner of each of the superior wings, and three spots 

 of the same kind round the fan edge of each of the inferior wings. See the figure at (r). They 

 are taken hy beating hedges of white-thorn, the end of May. 



The caterpillar, from which this moth proceeds, is a green looper. 



Expansion of the wings one inch. 





ODONESTIS POTATORIA. THE DRINKER MOTH, 



Plate XLII. fig. a, m, n, p, and t. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Bombyx) Potatoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 813. Donov. Brit. Ins. 5. 148. 

 Albin's Lis. pi. 17. Wilkes' Eng. Moths, pi. 58. 

 Odonestis Potatoria, Germar. Samouelle Compend. pi. 12. fig. 3. Stephens, Curtis. 

 Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 18. fig. 1. 2. 



Upper Side. The female is entirely of a yellowish or pale orange colour. The antennae are 

 finely pectinated ; the palpi somewhat long. From the apex of the superior wing arises a brown 

 mark, which crosses the wing diagonally to the lower edge, and ends near the thorax. In the middle 

 of the wing is a white spot. This moth, in its sitting position, does not fold up its inferior wings. 



The eggs, seen at (p), are deposited by the female on a large coarse kind of grass which 

 commonly grows under hedges, to the stalks and leaves thereof the eggs adhere, being fixed by a 

 kind of gum not dissolvable by water ; they are about the bigness of a hemp seed, of a whitish 

 colour, having a spot on the middle of the upper side, which is encircled with a black ring ; they 

 are hatched about the beginning of July, and the young caterpillars remain in that state during 

 the winter ; in spring they come forth from their secret places, and feed till the latter end of 

 May, when they become full fed and appear of the size and form as at (w) : they then spin them- 

 selves up in long silken cases, or bags, of a buff colour, wherein they change to brown chrysalides, 

 which are round or blunt at each end, and the moth appears at the expiration of one month. The 

 male, seen at (wz), differs from the female, seen at (a), both in size and colour, being of a dark red 

 brown colour, having the antennas very long and broad. They fly in the evening. 



Expansion of the wings 2j — 3 inches. 



THECLA BETUL^E. THE BROWN HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XLII. fig. b, c, f, g. 



Synonyms. Papilio (Pleb. Eur.) Betulse, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 787. Lewin's Papil. pi. 42. Donov. 

 Brit. Ins. 8. pi. 250. $. 

 Thecla Betulee, Fabricius, Leach, Curtis, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Butt. pi. 27. f. 1.2. 

 Papilio Minor Fuscus, &c, The Brown Hair Streak, Petiv. Papil. pi. 4. f. 23. 25. # . 

 Papilio Minor Fuscus, &c., The Golden Hair Streak, Petiv. Papil. pi. 4. fig. 24. $ . 

 The Hair Streak Butterfly, Jlbin's Ins. pi. 5. fig. 7. 

 The Brown Hair Streak. Wilkes' Eng. Moths fy Butt. pi. 117. 



Upper Side. The antennas are dark brown, tipped with orange. The female, seen at (e), 

 is on the upper side totally of a dark brown, having an orange-coloured spot in that part of the 

 wino- named the fan membranes, about the size of a small horse-bean. The inferior wings have 

 each little points or tails, one of which forms the abdominal corner : these are of an orange colour. 



The under side, seen at (/), is of a fine orange colour. The superior wings have a spot in 

 the middle, and a neat line of white which crosses the fan tendons parallel with the fan edge. 

 The inferior wings have two of these lines, of which that nearest the thorax is shortest. The 





