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yellow, with four rows of detached black spots, and the base is 

 sprinkled with black dots. The fringes are black and golden 

 yellow. The larva feeds on Vacciniuin. It is dark green 

 above, with a dark blue dorsal line, and white sub-dorsal lines, 

 spotted with black; then follows a broad yellow stripe on 

 the upper part of the sides, containing two blue lines, and 

 below this is a blue stripe containing two yellow lines. 



GENUS SriLOTE. 

 Spilote^ Hiibncr, Tentamen, p. 2 (1810?). 

 Abraxas, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 134 (18 19); Guenee, 



Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 201 (1857); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Lrit. Mus. xxiv. p. 11 14 (1862). 

 Zerene, pt. Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. (2), p. 217 (1828). 



This is one of the most typical genera of the family, and 

 is very numerously represented in Europe and Asia. 



THE MAGPIE MOTH. SPILOTE GROSSULARIATA, 



{Plate CXLVIIL, Fig. 5; larvcc, Figs. 6, 7.) 



Geometra gross ularia fa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 525, 



no. 167 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 331 (1861) ; Hiibner, 



Eur. Schmett. v. figs. Si, 82 (1798?). 

 Zerene grossulariata, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. (2), p. 237 



(1828). 

 Abraxas grossulariafa, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 



p. 247 (1831); Kirljy, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 314 



pi. 45, figs. 5-5 d (1882); Buckler, Larvas of Brit. 



Lepid. vii. p. 150, pi. 124, figs, i-i d (1897). 



The Magpie Molh is common throughout the greater part 

 of Europe and Northern and Western Asia. It expands from 

 an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters. 



The body is yellow, with black spots, and the wings are 



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