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wanting. On eacli side a number of narrow oblique yellow- 

 stripes form a sort of border to the dorsal spots ; spiracular 

 line waved, yellow ; segmental divisions yellow. 



It would be impossible to give an accurafce description of 

 the almost endless varieties of this most variable larva ; they 

 run so closely into each other that it would be an almost 

 Herculean task to separate them. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



Mr. Buckler has figured the larvee pea-green, whitish- 

 green, yellow-green, yellow-brown, purple-brown, and dark 

 brown, sometimes with a pale spiracular stripe. 



August till October or November, upon the flowers of 

 common yellow, and hoary-leaved i-agwort (Scnccio jacobcca 

 and S. eruci/olia), hemp-agrimony {JEiqMtorium cannabinum), 

 mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), yarrow (Achillea millefolium'), 

 golden-rod (Solidago virr/aurca), Aster tripoHum, Ballota 

 niyra, Origanam, vulgare, and various species of Scabious. 



Pupa. Wing-cases bright green with the nervures very 

 prominent ; thorax yellowish-green ; abdomen i-eddish- 

 yellow, with a dark green dorsal line. In a tightly spun 

 earthen cocoon, in the ground. (H. H. C.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth hides among coarse herbage and wild flowers, 

 and in the neighbouring bushes, in the daytime, and is rather 

 easily disturbed by the beating stick. It also flies about 

 such places at dusk and may be found later at night on the 

 flowers of composite plants. It is fairly common throughout 

 the southern half of England to the Scilly Isles, and found 

 less commonly in the Midlands, and through the more 

 northern counties to Northumberland. In Wales it is 

 common in Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire, and is 

 doubtless generally distributed, as also is the case in Ireland. 

 In Scotland it seems to be found in the eastern portion to 

 Moray and Aberdeenshire, in the middle parts to Perthshire, 

 and in the west to Clydesdale. Abroad its range is over 

 the greater portion of Central and Northern Europe, 



