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face green ; body brilliant emerald green ; divisions of tbe 

 segments bright yellow ; on the second to the fourth seg- 

 ments is a broad purple dorsal stripe, and similarly coloured 

 elongated spots are on the three following incisions ; on 

 the last three segmeots the purple doi'sal stripe re-appears ; 

 legs and prolegs purple. The purple markings on the first 

 pair of prolegs are continued on the sides, uniting with a 

 purple spot on the back. (C. Fenn.) 



May and .June, sometimes till the beginning of -July ; on 

 wild rose, feeding esjjecially upon the flowers. 



Pupa slender, the head rather projecting forward ; anal 

 segments blunt and hooked ; mahogany-colour, wing and 

 limb-covers dark green. In a cocoon of silk and earth, in 

 the ground. 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth inhabits lanes and hedges where rose is plentiful, 

 but loves to hide in thicker bushes, often those of black- 

 thorn when these are at hand, and is not readily induced to 

 fly in the daytime, or only to an e.xtremely short distance. 

 Occasionally it will sit on a post or a paling. At dusk it 

 flies along the hedges and will come sometimes to sallow- 

 bloom ; indeet.' it constantly frequents the same places as the 

 last species and has similar habits, but is by no means so 

 plentiful. Formerly frequent in the outskirts of London, 

 but now seldom seen. Elsewhere moderately common in suit- 

 able places, apparently, throughout England, since it a])pears 

 in, I think, every county record which we possess, from Kent 

 and Cornwall to Northumberland ; also found throughout 

 South Wales, and there is no reason to suppose it absent from 

 the northern portion. In Scotland it is reported from Hawick 

 and from Roxburghshire, Ayrshire, Argyleshire, and Aber- 

 deenshire ; indeed Dr. F. B. White gives its range as to the 

 Clyde Valley and Moray. In Ireland it is local and not 

 very common, but found in the Dublin district, Wicklow, 

 Waterford, Kerry, Galway, Westmeath, Monaghan, Tyrone, 



