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insects, that the females of these moths can easily be found at the 

Fig, 265.—Cheimatobia brumata, male. Fig. 266 —Cheimatobia 
brumata, female. 
a 
peginning of November, in a very strange place, namely, on the 
jras lamps of the public pr omenades ; - for instance, along the roads 
In the Bois de Boulogne. No doubt they had climbed up to this 
peight, attracted by the light, or perhaps had been carried thither 
by the males, which fly, ieabWe Willgs. 
In February and March appear other analogous species.  “ One 
/ iinds,” says M. Maurice Girar d, “near Paris, in the meadows which 
Jurround the confluence of the Seine and the Marne, at the end of 

Fig. 267.— Nyssia zonaria, male and female. 
he month of March, the Nyssia zonaria (Fig. 267), the males of 
which insect remain during the day motionless on the grass.” * 
There are some species of this family in which the wings of the 
females are developed like those of the males.t Such are the 
Peppere moth (Amphidasis betularia) and the Currant moth 
* With us this insect has a very limited range, being only found at New Brighton, 
rear Birkenhead, where it is most abundant.—Ep. 
+ The exception is with those in which the wings are mot developed in both cases, 
ind in England this peculiarity is confined to species appearing during the winter 
und early spring.—Ep. 

M. Maurice Girard says, in his work on the Metamorphoses of 


