Moths

Lepidoptera The Chocolate Tip Moth – Pygara Curtula This species is not nearly so common as the last, but is to be met with more or less in most of the English counties in the month of May. Fig. 135.-The Chocolate Tip. Its fore wings are light greyish brown, crossed with four transverse paler streaks, […]

Lepidoptera The Scalloped Oak Moth – Crocallis Elinguaria This species is common and widely distributed, and may be seen flying at dusk towards the end of July and throughout August. It is represented in fig. 4 of Plate XII. The antenna of the male are strongly pectinated; those of the female are simple. The caterpillar […]

Lepidoptera The Large Emerald Moth – Geometra Papilionaria Fig. 181.-The Large Emerald. This species is the largest of the family, and measures over two inches when its wings are expanded. The colour is dull green, with whitish bands and spots, the arrangement of which may be seen in our engraving. The moth is out in […]

Lepidoptera The Tiger Moth – Arctia Caia This splendid moth is exceedingly variable in its colour and markings, but its usual appearance corresponds closely with that of the illustration on Plate X (fig. 3). In some specimens the cream colour almost entirely covers the fore wings, while in others all four of the wings are […]

Lepidoptera The Large Elephant Moth – Charocampa Elpenor This species (Plate IX, fig. 3) is very similar to the last in form and markings; but is, as its name implies, larger. The caterpillar, too, is very like that of the last species, but may be distinguished from it by the possession of a short black […]

Lepidoptera The Green Silver-lined Moth – Hylophila Prasinana This family, under the name of Chloephorida, is included by some authors among the Tortrices (page 298), which they somewhat resemble in habits. It contains only four species, of which we will take one example-the Green Silver-lined. Fig. 108.-The Green Silver-lined. The fore wings of this insect […]

Lepidoptera The Grey Arches Moth – Aplecta Nebulosa Fig. 169.-The Grey Arches. The fore wings of this moth vary from greyish white to a rather dark smoky tint. The markings are of a darker colour, and are also subject to considerable variation. The orbicular and reniform spots are large, and paler than the ground colour; […]

Lepidoptera The Forester Moth – Ino Statices Fig. 105.-The Forester. The fore wings of this species are semi-transparent, and of a beautiful glossy green. The hind wings also are semi-transparent, but of a dull smoky tint. The thorax and abdomen are both of a brilliant metallic green colour. The tips of the antenna are blunt, […]

Lepidoptera The Common Carpet Moth – Melanippe Sociata Fig. 203.-The Common Carpet. The genus Melanippe contains twelve species, some of which are extremely common. One of these moths-the Common Carpet-is represented in fig. 203. Its wings are all of a smoky-brown colour, crossed by numerous white lines, the arrangement of which may be gathered from […]

Lepidoptera Family Fidoniida Moths We now come to a family of moths peculiar for their habit of flying more or less by day. As is often the case with day-flying moths, these are mostly prettily marked, and are consequently often mistaken by the uninitiated for butterflies. Most of them are to be found on heaths, […]