. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. i\ATUIiAL aiSTOMi: There is a large Vjlack eye in tlie middle of each wing marked with a wliite crescent inside, and surrounded with yellow and black rings. The caterpillar is green, with black transverse banils and reddish tubercles, studded with short hail-. It feeds on heath, ifec, and constructs a hard pear- shaped cocoon. The Emperor Moth is not an uncommon insect, but it is allied to the Great Peacock Motli {Suiuraia pi/ri), whicli measures six inches across the wings, and is the largest Moth found in. VTEKFILUR, CHRYSALIS, U>D MO
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. i\ATUIiAL aiSTOMi: There is a large Vjlack eye in tlie middle of each wing marked with a wliite crescent inside, and surrounded with yellow and black rings. The caterpillar is green, with black transverse banils and reddish tubercles, studded with short hail-. It feeds on heath, ifec, and constructs a hard pear- shaped cocoon. The Emperor Moth is not an uncommon insect, but it is allied to the Great Peacock Motli {Suiuraia pi/ri), whicli measures six inches across the wings, and is the largest Moth found in. VTEKFILUR, CHRYSALIS, U>D MOTH Or SATURN Europe, but has not been met with farther north than Paris or Vienna. It is a dark-grey Moth with white borders, within which the wings are much dai-ker than elsewhere. The eyes resemble those of iS. enrpinr, but are dusted with blue, and the caterpillar is gi-een, with blue warts instead of red ones, and it feeds on different kinds of trees, especially fruit-trees. The Lasiocampidce are large or middle-sized Moths, with stout, hairy bodies, and strong winj^s, and the caterpillars are clothed with soft hair. The Moths are generally of dull colours—browt, reddish-brown, or yellowish predominating. The Lappet Moth (Gnstropacha quercifolia), which is not very common in England, may be known by its reddish-Vrown denta^ed wings, marked with zigzag transverse lines. The Oak Eggar {Lasiocampa quercus), which is of about the same size, is a much commoner insect, and the hind margins are not dentated. The male is chestnut-brown, and the female ochre-yellow; across the wings runs a broad transverse band of pale yellow, which is much more distinct in the male than in the female, but there is a white spot in both sexes about the middle of the fore wings. The cater- pillar is black, with paler hairs, and a white stripe on each side. It feeds on many plants, including oak, and forms an egg-shaped cocoon, whence its name. The male flies very rapidly in the daytime, but may easi
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