The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series: Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to HepialidæSouth, Richard
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The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series: Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ
South, Richard
Lepidoptera -- Great Britain; Moths -- Great Britain
2 Pl. 134.
1, 4, 7, 8. MOTTLED BEAUTY, VARS.
2. SPECKLED BEAUTY.
3, 5. RANNOCH BRINDLED BEAUTY.
6. SEPTEMBER THORN.
9. LARGE THORN, VAR.
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2 Pl. 135.
2. GREAT OAK BEAUTY.
1, 3. PALE OAK BEAUTY.
{309} The species occurs most frequently in the New Forest, Hampshire,
where, in some years, it is very common. Other English counties in which it
has been found, or still exists, are--Devon (Cann Woods), Dorset (Cranborne
and Bloxworth), Wilts. (Savernake Forest), Sussex (Abbots Wood, Charlton
Forest, Holme Bank, etc.), Surrey (Addington, June, 1902), Kent, Essex
(Epping Forest), Berks., Bucks., Warwick (Princethorpe Wood), Worcester
(Wyre Forest), Stafford (Cannock Chase), Cheshire (Dunham Park), York (wood
near Selby), Lancashire (Corporation and Quernmore Woods).
PALE OAK BEAUTY (_Boarmia consortaria_).
Some specimens are rather greyer, and the cross markings are occasionally
less distinct than in Figs. 1 [male], and 3 [female] on Plate 135, which
represent the typical forms of this species in England. Examples of a
blackish form have been noted from a wood in West Kent, and these are
apparently referable to the melanic ab. _humperti_, Humpert, but the
Kentish specimens I have seen had the second line of fore wings edged with
white, and a white submarginal line.
The caterpillar, which in shape is somewhat like that of the last species,
varies in colour. One form is greenish grey, with three lines, the central
one darker than those on each side. In another the colour is pale brown
mottled with reddish and a darker brown. It feeds on oak, birch, and
sometimes sallow, in July and August.
The moth is out in June and July, and specimens have been recorded as
captured in September. It may be found on the trunks of oak and fir trees,
and will come to sugar and light at night. Although local it is not
uncommon in the New Forest and other woods in Hampshire; also in Sussex,
Surrey, Kent. {310} and Berkshire. It has been recorded from
Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire; and as local and scarce in the
Lancaster district.
The range abroad extends to Amurland and Japan, and in both countries it is
represented by var. _conferenda_, Butler.
SPECKLED BEAUTY (_Cleora angularia_).
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