. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 278 COMMON BBITISH MOTHS Familyâ The V Moth {Halia Vauaria) The family Macariidce contains only five British species, four of which have the tip of the fore wings extended more or less into an angle, and the hind ^\'inc,^s are also angled to a greater or less extent. Our only example is the V Moth, so called Irom the conspicuous V-shaped blackish mark on the middle of the costa of the fore wings. The ground colour of all the wings is grey, with a delicate violet tinge. There are other dark markings in addition
. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 278 COMMON BBITISH MOTHS Familyâ The V Moth {Halia Vauaria) The family Macariidce contains only five British species, four of which have the tip of the fore wings extended more or less into an angle, and the hind ^\'inc,^s are also angled to a greater or less extent. Our only example is the V Moth, so called Irom the conspicuous V-shaped blackish mark on the middle of the costa of the fore wings. The ground colour of all the wings is grey, with a delicate violet tinge. There are other dark markings in addition to the one mentioned above, and the arrangement of Fig. 188 âThe V these may be seen in the woodcut. "â This s[)ecies is very common in all parts, and flies at about midsummer. The caterpillar is very variable in colour, but is generally green, and is marked with longitudinal wavy lines. On each side is a series of yellow blotches, forming a broken lateral stripe, and the body is covered with minute black bristle-bearing warts. It feeds in May on gooseberry' and currant bushes, and changes to a chrysalis in a web between the leaves. FamilyâFidoniid.^e We now come to a fiimily 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, downs, and open fields; but oneâthe Bordered White âis met with only in fir woods. The wings are not angulatcd, and the iintcnnte of tlie males arc pectinated. The larviE are generally to be distinguished by a couple of little horns on one or more of the hindermost segments, and in most cases they pupate beneath the sxu'face of the soil. The Common Heath {Ematurga alouuii-id) Of this family we shall select two examples, the first of which is the Common Heath, often so abundant on heaths and downs that they are disturbed at almost every footstep.
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