THE CVrRRANT MOTH. 

 I'halcena Grossularia/a. 



PLATE LXXXI 



]»hala>iia Grossulaiuita, Linn. Si/st. Nat. ii. p. 8()7 — 

 Donovan's Brit. Insects, pi. 4. 



The wings of this very common species are white, 

 covered with a great variety of black spots and fil- 

 lets ; on the upper wings is a scsquitertious bright 

 orange band, bounded on its inner edge by an in- 

 terrupted band of black, and on its outer edge by a 

 row of equidistant black spots ; the body is of the 

 same colour ; the segments have each a black spot ; 

 the head and eyes are black ; the antcnnte are long, 

 slender, and tapering. 



The caterpillar is white, with black spots on tlie 

 back ; the belly is yellow ; and at the insertion of 

 the annulations is a tuft of very fine hairs ; it feeds 

 on gooseberry and cunant bushes, and generally 

 emerges from the egg in May. The caterpillar, 

 previous to its change into the pupa state, spins 

 for itself a web of a very slight and delicate texture, 

 by which it is suspended horizontally against the 

 branches of trees. The pupa is black, with a yellow 

 fillet at the annulations, and three spots of the same 



