Four Allies of the Winter Moth. 



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pronounced anal brush. The female is grey with very hairy 

 legs, and quite without wings. 



The perfect insect appears in January, and the greyish 

 wingless female ascends the trees and lays eggs singly on 

 the shoots. The egg is greenish, with brown dots, elliptical, 

 and about the size of a poppy seed. The caterpillar is large, 

 ■from to if inches long, cylindrical, very stout, and of a 

 irich-brown colour, with knobs and warts on several of the 

 segments (those on the sixth and seventh segments are par- 

 ticularly large), and black bristly hairs. It pupates in the 



The Pale Brindled Beauty [Phygalm pilosaria). ' 



Winged male ; wingless female ; caterpillar. All natural size. 



^•round. There is a great resemblance between the cater- 

 pillar of this moth and that of the Small Brindled Beauty. 

 The distinction between them as shown in Buckler's " Larvce 

 of British Moths" consists in the warts of the latter being 

 larger and colouring mottled with orange. 



The March Moth is frequently abundant, and does much 

 harm to fruit-trees and bushes of many kinds, and to filbert 

 and cob-nut bushes. The female is wingless, brown in 

 colour, with a conspicuous brush, or tuft of hairs, at the 

 lower extremity of the body. The legs are very long. The 

 male moth is about the size of the Winter Moth, with brown 

 forewings streaked with a pale transverse ziz-zag line on the 

 outer edges and a light fascia. The hind wings are some- 

 what lighter. The moths are first seen in March, and the 

 female crawls up the trees and lays shining olive-brown, 



