WHITE-PLBMED MOTH. 267 
■which are described by Eeaumur, have sixteen legs, 
and are furnished with hairs sometimes of consider- 
able length placed on rows of tubercles. The pupas, 
■which are likewise hairy, at least in some species, 
are occasionally suspended by a band round the 
middle. The White-plume Moth is the largest of 
the British kinds, the ■wings sometimes measures 
rather more than an inch across ; the anterior pair 
rather ample, deeply cleft, with the apex somewhat 
acute, the whole snow'-white ■with a silky gloss ; 
the eyes alone being black. The caterpillar, -which 
feeds principally on nettles, is white tinged with 
green, marked Avith dusky spots, and having a yellow 
line on the sides. 
The moth is common throughout England on 
hedge banks, weedy lanes, &c., and appears to be 
by no means rare in Scotland. 
MANY-PLUMED MOTH. 
Alucita Hemdactyla. 
PLATE XXX. Fig. 4. 
Phal. Alucita HexadactjTa, Linn , ; Don, iv. PI. 136. — Twenty- 
Plumed Moth, Harris Pteroph. Hexadactylus \ The Six- 
cleft Plume, HaworOt, 
At once distinguished from all its associates by the 
beautiful structure of the ■\vings, -which are regularly 
divided into equal plumes, composed after the man- 
