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pillar is greenish streaked with white, with a brown head, and feeds on the annual 

 meadow grass, and also, according to some authors, upon Hieracium Pilosellse. The 

 chrysalis is green. 



CABERA PUSARIA. THE PALE WAVED MOTH. 



Plate XLIV. fig. h. 



Synonyms. Phalaena (Geometra) Pusaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 864. Stewart. Alton's Ins. pi. 118. 

 fig. e — h. 

 Cabera Pusaria, Treitschke, Stephens. 

 Aspilates Pusaria, Curtis. 



Upper Side. The antennae are pectinated, and more than a quarter of an inch in length. 

 This moth is entirely of a yellowish white, having three palish lines crossing each wing. It is 

 taken by beating the hedges in May. 



The caterpillar is of the looper kind, and feeds on white-thorn ; it changes to chrysalis in a 

 spinning about September, and the moth comes forth about the middle of May. A figure of the 

 upper side of the moth is seen in the Plate at (K). 



Expansion of the wings one inch and a quarter. 



THE END. 



O God. thou hast taught me from my youth ; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works 



Psalm Ixxi. 17- 



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