8G 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
moth, with, orange brown wings, variegated with many 
curved black and white streaks, once not uncommon in 
Kent, is now very rare there. It has, however, been 
taken in large numbers in the Rannoch woods, near 
Perth. I must not omit to mention the Emperor 
moth (Saturnici Pavonia minor), with its four eye-like 
spots in a yellow ring surrounded by a black one, and 
wings prettily variegated with brown, red, grey, and 
orange. It appears in April. 
Caterpillar of the Tigkr-Motii, or Woolly Eear. 
The Psycliidcu family belongs also to the Bombycina 
group. In it the females are even more helpless crea¬ 
tures than those of the Vapourers; for not only are 
they destitute of wings, they have neither legs nor an¬ 
tenna). The female is a mere bag of eggs, never quitting 
the covering in which it was bred. The larva constructs 
a moveable case in which it lives and undergoes its- 
metamorphosis. This house-building peculiarity will 
remind us of the Caddis Worm insects I have already 
spoken of. These larva) must be looked for in spring 
and summer. 
The third group, that of the Noctuincc , contains about 
300 British species, As their name implies, these moths, 
fly, as a rule, by night, but there are day-flying species. 
