. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 264 COMMON BRITISH MOTHS oblique white marks. Just above the spiracles is a white stripe. It feeds on the dead nettle {Laviiam album), stinging nettle (TJrtica dioica), and burdock {Arctimn minus), and is full grown in June. The Silver Y (Plnsici Gamma) Our second example of this family is the Silver Y, which may be found in abundance everywhere from June to October. Its fore wings are of a shiny grey colour, beautifully marbled with a rich dark brown ; and just below the orbicular spot is a brilliant silvery spot, in fo
. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 264 COMMON BRITISH MOTHS oblique white marks. Just above the spiracles is a white stripe. It feeds on the dead nettle {Laviiam album), stinging nettle (TJrtica dioica), and burdock {Arctimn minus), and is full grown in June. The Silver Y (Plnsici Gamma) Our second example of this family is the Silver Y, which may be found in abundance everywhere from June to October. Its fore wings are of a shiny grey colour, beautifully marbled with a rich dark brown ; and just below the orbicular spot is a brilliant silvery spot, in form something like the Greek letter y placed obliquely. The base of the hind wings is gi'ey; along the margin is a broad and dark smoky brown band, and the fringe is ^•ery lighi grey, barred with the darl: tint of the band. This moth is commonly driven out of its hiding places among low plants as we walk in waste places, and when thiis disturbed it takes a short and rapid flight, generally disappearing so suddenly among the herbage that it is difficult to locale it correctly. The caterpillar is thickest at the twelfth segment, and tapers gradually from this point towards the head. Its bod^' is green, with several thin longitudinal white stripes, and a thin yellow stripe along the spiracles. It may be found from June to October, feeding on many kinds of low Fig, 175.—The Silver Y. Family—EucLiDiiDTi': The Mother Shipton {EueUdia Mi) Passing over a few small and less important families, we come to the Euclidiidcc, which contains only two British moths. One of these is the Mother Shipton, a very common insect that flies in June. The fore wings of this species are very dark brown with whitish markings. The latter include a peculiarly tortuous line, the character of which will be made out more easily from our illustration (Plate XI, fig. 4) than from a written description. The hind wings are. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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