Fig. 12.

March Moth, male.

Fig. 14.

March Moth,
female x2.

Fig. 13.

March Moth, female.

(Photos by H. Main.)

Examples of each sex are shown on Plate [122], Figs. 7 and 8 ♂, 6 ♀. The male varies in the general colour from pale to dark grey; the central area being sometimes smoky tinged. In the north of England, chiefly in Yorkshire, blackish specimens occur in which the markings are more or less obscured.

2 Pl. 124.
1-3.Small Brindled Beauty. 4-6.Belted Beauty.7, 8.Brindled Beauty.

2 Pl. 125.
1.Mottled Umber: egg, natural size and enlarged, and caterpillars.
2.Scarce Umber: egg, natural size and enlarged.
3.Dotted Border: caterpillar.
4.March Moth: caterpillar.

Fig. 15.

Pale Brindled Beauty.