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stripe ; after this comes a similarly coloured side stripe ; 

 uudersurface pale green with two whitish longitudinal 

 lines ; head small, brown ; dorsal plate and legs somewhat 

 paler ; anal plate and the outer side of the anal prolegs 

 brown ; ventral prolegs green ; raised dots black, with paler 

 rings. 



Or the colour is yellow-brown, with the broad dorsal line 

 ])aler. divided liy a red-brown line, and edged with the same ; 

 side stripe white witli a reddish border ; undersurface paler 

 with three brownish longitudinal lines. (Hofmann.) 



September in the seed-vessels of Eiqihrasia ujficinalif; (eye- 

 brightj, devouring the seeds. 



Pupa. Dorsal region and abdomen yellow, with the seg- 

 mental divisions brown, and the wing covers green and 

 rather transparent ; cremaster furnished with two hooks. In 

 the ground. (Hofmann.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth flies in the afternoon sunshine, especially towards 

 r..M., about its food-plants and the neighbouring heather, 

 on the mouutaiu heaths which it frequents, and to which it 

 appears to be restricted. In them it is very local, abounding 

 in small spots on the sides of hills, to the exclusion of 

 extensive tracts which appear to be equally suitable. It is 

 said to occur near Hawkshead, Lancashire ; Derwentwater 

 and Seathwaite, Cumberland ; on some of the mountain 

 moors of Westmoreland ; and in North Northumberland. In 

 Scotland it is locally abundant; occurring near Hawick and 

 Berwick ; at Bavelaw Moor, Midlothian ; in Fife, on the 

 Pentlands ; in Dumfriesshire, Argyleshire, Stirlingshire, 

 Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Inverness, and elsewhere in 

 mountain districts to West Ross and the Orkneys. In 

 Ireland the only locality in which it has been found appears 

 to be on the Mourne Mountains, in the County Down, but 

 this must surely be from poverty of investigation, since the 

 country abounds with suitable places. 



