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purple, subdorsal lines only appearing in detacLed spots in 

 the middle of the segments ; spiracular lines pale yellow 

 blotched on the upper side in the same situations ; under- 

 surface whitish or yellowish with a sleuder central green line. 

 (Rev. H. H. Crewe.; 



August and September; and an occasional, very partial, 

 second generation in October and November ; on ash ; but 

 in confinement on Lnvrustinux ; and 1 am assured by Mr. 

 J. E. Eobson that he has found and reared it upon the 

 blossoms of Scaliioim. 



Pupa long, rather slender and tapering ; thorax and wing- 

 cases dark olive-sfreen ; abdomen darker, almost black, but 

 tinged underneath with red. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) In a slight 

 cocoon under loose bark, in a deep chink, or under moss on 

 an ash trunk, or in the earth at its foot. 



The moth sits in the daytime on the trunks of ash 

 trees or among the branches, usually running up high 

 soon after drying its wings, and is not commonly seen ; 

 at late dusk it flies, also about the ash trees, but will 

 come readily to any neighbouring strong light, such as a 

 gas-lamp. It was tbrmerlj' confused with E. innotata ; and 

 was described under that name by Stephens and Stainton, 

 but this error was rectified, and distinctions of both perfect 

 insects and larvfe very fully pointed out by the Rev. H. 

 Harper Crewe. It seems to be by no means rare in the 

 suburbs of London, especially in the Parish of Camberwell, 

 and is to be found in other parts of Surrey, in Kent, Sussex, 

 Hants, Dorset, Devon, Wilts, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, 

 Suffolk, Xorfolk, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Warwick- 

 shire, Staftbrdshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Cheshire. 

 Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland ; and in 

 Wales Mr. H. W. Vivian has found it in Glamorganshire. In 

 Scotland it seems to occur only in the south, in the Edinburgh 

 district, Clydesdale, and in the Solway region ; in Ireland 

 it is rare, but has been taken in Kerrv, Wicklow, Galwav. and 



