Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . upper wings, I will callit the Brown Plush. Without a magnifying glass, it is impossible to make outcorrectly the colours of this little Moth. The upper wings arebrown, with a slight reddish gloss, and on close examination areseen to be covered with a great number of tiny longitudinalstreaks of a yellowish dun. Altogether, the general effect of theupper surface of the wing is exactly like that of a piece of brownplush. The base of the upper wings is dark brown, and so is asmall spot near the inne
Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . upper wings, I will callit the Brown Plush. Without a magnifying glass, it is impossible to make outcorrectly the colours of this little Moth. The upper wings arebrown, with a slight reddish gloss, and on close examination areseen to be covered with a great number of tiny longitudinalstreaks of a yellowish dun. Altogether, the general effect of theupper surface of the wing is exactly like that of a piece of brownplush. The base of the upper wings is dark brown, and so is asmall spot near the inner margin, and two dusk-dun spots onthe disc. The fringe of tlie wings is greyish-dun. The lower L L 2 516 INSECTS AT HOME. wings and the abdomen are grey, as is the under surface of thewings. The larva of this insect is bluish-black, with an orange stripeon each side, and is really a handsome little creature. It feedson the Hemlock Water Dropwort {(Enanthecrocata). A mag-nified figure of this caterpillar is given at Fig. a of the sameWoodcut, and Fig. b shows the caterpillar of its natural LX. 1. Depressarla riervosella. 2. Coleophora ibipennella. 3. Ti=cbevia complanella. a and 6. Depressaria, larva. c. Coleophora, larva. d. Tischeiia, larva. size, feeding on the flowers of the dropwort which it has drawntoo-ether with silken threads. I CANNOT pass unnoticed the very beautiful and very mis-chievous insect called by the popular name of the Little Ermine(Hyponomeuta padella). With respect to the first of thesenames, I must mention that some writers on entomology omit THE LITTLE ERMINE. 517 the H and spell the word Yponomeuta. This practice, althoughit is largely indulged in by various writers, is utterly wrong, asit omits the aspirate in the Greek, the English representativeof which is the letter H. Following exactly the spelling as well as the arrangement ofcertain authors, I have more than once accepted this omissionof the aspirate, but I can do so no longer, and hereby offer
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