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Larva moderately stout, slightly tapering in front ; twelfth 

 segment a little I'aised ; head rounded, bristly, pale brown 

 dusted with black ; dorsal region dark grey ; sides below the 

 spiracles and the undersurface conspicuously reddish-ochreons : 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines very slender and threadlike, whitish, 

 distinct only on the second to fifth segments, the dorsal ge- 

 minated ; there is a pale reddish-ochreous dorsal diamond on 

 eacli segment from the sixth to the eleventh, each diamond 

 enclosing a lilack spot ; a prominent black spot is on each 

 segment below the spiracles, and a black dash on the front 

 of each pair of prolegs ; a pale geminated central line on 

 the undersurface is shaded on each side with grey. 



Or. ground colour pale greyish-brown ; a series of black 

 dorsal sjjots from the fifth to eleventh segments is enclosed 

 each in a pale reddish diamond, the posterior half of which 

 is often filled up with grey, giving it the appearance of a 

 pale triangle. Other markings as before. It varies in inten- 

 sity of the ground colour, and the pale dorsal markings are 

 absent in the young larva. (Chas. Fenn. ) 



June and the beginning of July, and a second generation 

 at the end of August and in September ; on cabbage and 

 other Crvcifirw — yet cabbage cannot be its natural food 

 in the wild state, since it does not frecjueut gardens, and 

 there is little doubt that it lives on those species of "cress" 

 which are found in damp woods. 



Pupa moderately stout ; wing-covers projecting at the 

 sides ; anal extremity furnished with a hooked bristle ; dark 

 brown or pitchy-brown ; in a cocoou of silk and earth on or 

 under the surface of the ground. (Chas. Fenn.) 



The winter is passed in this condition. 



The moth is common in woods, especially damp woods, 

 sitting on the trunks of trees or among the bushes, very 

 often with its wings erect ready for flight, and is extremely 

 alert, flying out upon the smallest ])rovocation. Its natural 

 time of flight, however, is at dusk, and it is then, from its 



