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Excerpt from The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 9 of 34 Owing to the difficulty of finding individual larvae sparingly scattered among masses of moss, I have been unable to compare to gether those of southern G. Similis and northern var. Confinis, so can only say that they feed at the same time on similar mosses, and that the moths emerge simultaneously. Meyrick, hb. Br. Lep., 589 sinks confinis as a dark northern form of G. Nfinis, Dgl., but this is clearly erroneous, for the former never shows the peculiar characteristics by which all the forms of the latter may be readily recognised, and which include a pale ochreous spot at the extreme base of the fore-wing, an additional (5. E., a fourth) black spot which lies on the fold towards the base, the presence of numerous pale ochreous scales scattered over the ground colour, and of some longitudinal dashes of pale ochreous scales following each of the three anterior black stigmata. Afim's also has all the pale scales and the pale fascia much more ochreous, and the latter' much more constant and more strongly pronounced than similis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
