. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. BOMBYCES 229 eight inclusive is a brush-like tuft of yellowish hairs. It feeds on almost every tree usually to be found in parks and gardens. When fully grown it spins a web on the bark of a tree, or on a wall or fence, and changes to a hairy chrysalis. The female of this si^ecies is wingless, and never moves away from the cocoon out of which she has crawled, Fig- 1"27.—Larva of the Vapourer Moth. but lays her eggs on the outside of the silken web, and there remains to die. The clusters of eggs may be found in abund
. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. BOMBYCES 229 eight inclusive is a brush-like tuft of yellowish hairs. It feeds on almost every tree usually to be found in parks and gardens. When fully grown it spins a web on the bark of a tree, or on a wall or fence, and changes to a hairy chrysalis. The female of this si^ecies is wingless, and never moves away from the cocoon out of which she has crawled, Fig- 1"27.—Larva of the Vapourer Moth. but lays her eggs on the outside of the silken web, and there remains to die. The clusters of eggs may be found in abundance throughout the winter months. Family— This family contains eleven thick-bodied moths, mostly of large size, in wliich the predominating colours are greys and browns. Their hind wings are generally paler than the front pair, and less distinctly marked; and the antenna of the males are pectinated. The caterpillars are very hairy, but the hairs are uniformly- distributed, and not arranged in tufts as in the larva? of the last family. The chrysalides are inclosed in silken cocoons, but are not hairy. "We shall briefly examine three of the members of this family. Tlie OnT; Eggar [Bomhijx Quercus) The male of this species is shown on Plate X (fig. 5). The female is much larger, and of a pale tawny colour. The ground coloiir of the caterpillar is black ; but it is so closely covered with short yellowish brown hairs that the black is scarcely visible, excepting when the creature rolls itself up into a ring, which it does when alarmed. The spiracles are white, and there is a series of white spots down the middle of the back and along each side. It feeds on whitethorn {Cratcegiis oxijacantlia), heather {Calluna, Erica), poplar (Poj^ulus nigra), and various other plants and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perf
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