. The moths of the British Isles . ; it is represented inJapan hy fulvida, Butler, and in North America by basaliata^Walker. Yellow Shell {Camptogramma bilifteata). ,0 Y \V This very common and generally distributed species is subject / to a good deal of variation in the tint of ground colour, and also^ ^ in the greater or lesser amount of black marking. On Plate 85six specimens are shown ; Figs. 4, 5 represent the more fre-quent form in most localities, but in many districts ab. znfiis-cata, Gumppenberg (Fig. 6), is hardly less common; in somespecimens the central band is entirely blackish, a
. The moths of the British Isles . ; it is represented inJapan hy fulvida, Butler, and in North America by basaliata^Walker. Yellow Shell {Camptogramma bilifteata). ,0 Y \V This very common and generally distributed species is subject / to a good deal of variation in the tint of ground colour, and also^ ^ in the greater or lesser amount of black marking. On Plate 85six specimens are shown ; Figs. 4, 5 represent the more fre-quent form in most localities, but in many districts ab. znfiis-cata, Gumppenberg (Fig. 6), is hardly less common; in somespecimens the central band is entirely blackish, and occasion-ally the middle area of the band is partly or wholly the wings are uniformly yellow without markings,but such aberrations are scarce, or have not been noted small form occurring in the Hebrides and the Shetlands, , Stand., has the wings generally darkened; depict three specimens from the Isle of Lewis. Portraitsof two very local Irish forms will be found on Plate 61 ; one.
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