Pl. 156.
1, 1a, 1b.Hebrew Character: eggs, caterpillars and chrysalis.
2, 2a.Clouded Drab: caterpillars and chrysalis.
3.Mouse Moth: caterpillar.

Pl. 157.
1-6.Clouded Drab Moth.
7, 8.Lead-coloured Drab Moth.
9, 10.Northern Drab.

The Copper Underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea).

The striking species shown on Plate [154], Figs. 1 to 3, varies somewhat in the tint of its brown-coloured fore wings, and in the greater or lesser amount of blackish shading on the central area; the latter is sometimes quite absent, and not infrequently the outer marginal area is pale ochreous brown. The hind wings, normally of a coppery colour, are occasionally paler, and sometimes of a reddish hue.

The caterpillar is green with three interrupted whitish stripes on the back; the dots are yellowish; and the stripe along the black-edged white spiracles is whitish; the back of ring eleven is raised, forming a cone, the apex of which is hornlike and slightly curved backwards; the head is green. It feeds from April, or in forward seasons from March, to June, on the foliage of oak, birch, sallow, plum, rose, and other trees and shrubs. The moth flies from late July to September, and sometimes later. Although somewhat local in Southern England, it is often common enough in the New Forest, and most of the larger woods from Essex to Devonshire. Northwards from Oxfordshire it becomes more local, less frequent, and even rare,

except, perhaps, in Worcestershire (Malvern district, common) and Herefordshire. Apparently not recorded from Scotland. In Ireland it is sometimes plentiful in the south, but does not seem to occur north of Sligo on the west, and Howth on the east.

The Mouse (Amphipyra tragopogonis).