. The moths of the British Isles . gs, up to or just beyond the sub-marginal line, is blackish; and sometimes the pale outer marginalarea is broken up by the blackish nervules. Very rarely, theground colour is almost white, and the cross-markings on thefore wings dusky grey. The female (Plate 124, Fig. 3) variesfrom brown to blackish. RANNOCH BRINDLED BEAUTY. 297 The caterpillar is brown, inclining to blackish or purplish,the raised spots are black, and occasionally the sides are freckledwith orange (Plate 126, Fig. 2,from a coloured drawing byMr. A. Sich). It feeds in Mayand early June on oak
. The moths of the British Isles . gs, up to or just beyond the sub-marginal line, is blackish; and sometimes the pale outer marginalarea is broken up by the blackish nervules. Very rarely, theground colour is almost white, and the cross-markings on thefore wings dusky grey. The female (Plate 124, Fig. 3) variesfrom brown to blackish. RANNOCH BRINDLED BEAUTY. 297 The caterpillar is brown, inclining to blackish or purplish,the raised spots are black, and occasionally the sides are freckledwith orange (Plate 126, Fig. 2,from a coloured drawing byMr. A. Sich). It feeds in Mayand early June on oak, andwill also eat hawthorn, birch,and elm. The moth, which is out inFebruary and March, appearsto be local, but has a wide dis-tribution through England fromDurham to Hampshire, andeven Devonshire. It has alsobeen recorded from Denbigh-shire, North Wales. A well-known locality is RichmondPark, in Surrey, and here it isfound resting on oak trunksor on the grass stems, etc.,under or around the trees. The male is attracted by Fig. Brindled Beauty at rest. (Photo by H. Main.) Rannoch Brindled Beauty {Nyssia lappotiarid). The sexes of this species are shown on Plate 134, where Fig. 3represents the male, and Fig. 5 the female. It was not knownto occur in the British Isles until 1871, when a male specimenwas captured in Perthshire, on April 20 of that year. M. Christy, in 1895, bred some moths from larvseobtained in the Highlands of Scotland, and he sent eggs to W. Frohawk, who worked out the life history, and describedand figured all the stages from ^%g to perfect insect {E? 237). In July, 1900 and 1901, Mr. E. A. Cockayne found • 298 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. caterpillars, in Perthshire (Rannoch district), on ling, heath,and bog-myrtle ; and in June, 1904, he published { 149) some interesting observations on the habits of thespecies in its native haunts. The greenish yellow eggs are laidin batches of 10 to 150 in t
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