. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 184 BRITISH BUTTEBFLIES. Fig. 83.—The Brown Hair STREAK—Male. white lines, the inner one of which is indistinct; and on the hind wings are two others, the outer one being longer and more distinct than the inner. This biitterflv is hj no means an abundant insect, though it is widely distributed, and in some places plentiful. Its chief haunts are woods, and we ma;) mention among its favoured localities Epping Forest, Monk's Wood in Cambridgeshire, the wooded parts of South De^on and Dorset, New Forest, (', and Pe
. Butterflies and moths (British). Butterflies; Insects -- Great Britain. 184 BRITISH BUTTEBFLIES. Fig. 83.—The Brown Hair STREAK—Male. white lines, the inner one of which is indistinct; and on the hind wings are two others, the outer one being longer and more distinct than the inner. This biitterflv is hj no means an abundant insect, though it is widely distributed, and in some places plentiful. Its chief haunts are woods, and we ma;) mention among its favoured localities Epping Forest, Monk's Wood in Cambridgeshire, the wooded parts of South De^on and Dorset, New Forest, (', and Peterborough. The perfect insect is on the wing from July to October, and the eggs are deposited in the autumn on the twigs of its food plant—the l)lackthorn {Pnimis spinosa). Tliese do not hatch till the following spring. Toward the end of June the caterpillar is fully fed. The colour of the caterpillar is light green, with two white stripes down the back, and two others along the sides. There are also two small oblique whitish lines on each side of each segment. The chrysalis is smooth, and of a pale brown colour. The Black Hairstreali-, or White-letter Hairstreah {Thecla W-album) The first of the above two popular names has been applied to this species on account of the very deep brown colour of the upper side, which colour is often a near approach to black. The second is due to the W-shaped bend of the white streak of the hind wings. I'he gromid colour ot the under side (Plate \'I, fig. 4) is grej-ish brown, with a bright orange band, spotted with black near the hind margin of the hind wings. W-albiim is a somewhat rare insect, but is occasionally seen in plenty in a few loca- lities, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Epping, Colchester and Suffolk being among its chief resoi'ts. It is out on the wing in July, and should be looked for in wooded country where the common elm {Ulmns camijestris) and the wych elm (U. montana), its food plants, Please note that these images
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