Forest entomology . approaching to yellow at the extremity. The pre-vailing colour of the wings is a mixture of dark-brown and apical portion of the fore wing—a space about equal to one-halfof the wing—is a brown-black colour, and the remainder of the wingis practically white, with brown streaks. The under wings are of asimilar colour, but the white portion is more mixed with the browncolour, and sometimes roughly divided into white and brown spaces. 1 Forstzoologie. LEFIDOPTERA. 255 The female (fig. 241) is, as a rule, slightly larger than the male,being a little over an inch in exp
Forest entomology . approaching to yellow at the extremity. The pre-vailing colour of the wings is a mixture of dark-brown and apical portion of the fore wing—a space about equal to one-halfof the wing—is a brown-black colour, and the remainder of the wingis practically white, with brown streaks. The under wings are of asimilar colour, but the white portion is more mixed with the browncolour, and sometimes roughly divided into white and brown spaces. 1 Forstzoologie. LEFIDOPTERA. 255 The female (fig. 241) is, as a rule, slightly larger than the male,being a little over an inch in expanse of wings. In colour bothsexes are very unlike, the female being of a nearly uniform orange-brown tint above. Both sexes fold*their wings erect when in repose. Cheimitobia brumata, Linn. (Winter Moth). To the fruit-grower in many parts of England this is a dreaded is also a most injurious forest insect, inasmuch as it feeds on severalspecies of hardwood trees. In nursery-rows, in early summer, young.
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