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DRINKER-MOTH. 
on tlie stirfnce, somewliat glossy, the anterior ivings 
-.rith an ochreous yellow patch at the base, and the 
disk more or less sutfiised with the same colour ; a 
dai'k rust-coloured line extends obliquely .across 
each of them from the tip to the middle of the 
inner edge, a faint transverse line is likewise ob- 
servable near the base, and another, sometimes faint 
and interrupted, towards tlie hinder margin, to 
wliich it is nearly parallel. On the disk, towards 
the anterior margin, are two white spots, the lower 
one largest and stained ivith yellow in the centre. 
The hinder wings are imspotted, but there is an 
indistinct transverse streak on each darker than the 
rest of the surface. The body and antcnnse ai‘e 
nearly of the same hue as the Tvings. The female 
is about a third larger than the male, and of a pale 
ochre-yellow, sometimes approaching to yellowish- 
white. She lays a considerable number of eggs, 
which are whitish, surrounded unth two green 
circles, and marked ■ndth a dark spot. The cater- 
pillar has natlier a singular appearance from being 
furnished irith two long conical tufts, one of them 
placed on the back of the second segment and di- 
rected forwards, the other on the eleventh segment 
and turned in the opposite direction. On e.'ich side 
of the back there is a linear series of velvet-black 
spots, followed by a line of yellow spots, and beneath 
these a number of tufts of white hair. Like so 
many others of its tribe, it rolls itself in a ring when 
apprehensive of danger. It feeds on a variety of 
common grasses, such as Alopecurws pratensis, Bro- 
