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tipped with pink ; divisions of the segments faintly ringed 

 with yellow. (Described from a specimen sent from the 

 New Forest for that purpose by Mr. C. Gulliver.) 



In one of Mr. Buckler's figures the purple-red dorsal line 

 is only visible on the thoracic segments. Another form is 

 described by the Rev. J. HelHns as yellowish-greeu without 

 markings ; and another as having a pink ventral line and 

 pink legs. 



July and August; on oak, ash, apple, hornbeam, cherry, 

 rose, blackthorn, and lime. 



Pupa slender ; yellow-brown, dotted with black and faintly 

 hoary ; the cremaster extended, thickened, darker, bearing 

 four slender hooks. (Rogenhofer.) 



The moth hides during the day iu some thick cover — dense 

 bushes or branches of trees, thick ivy — and where thatch is in 

 use, constantly concealing itself therein, more particularly in 

 thatches formed of faggots or long chips such as are used in 

 the wooded, hoop-making districts of the South of England. 

 When beaten out it flutters away to the ground or another 

 shelter, or if the weather is warm, flies more strongly. Its 

 natui-al flight is at dusk, when it is strongly attracted by 

 ivy-bloom, the flowers of La/iruMinus, and even ripe black- 

 berries ; it also flies at this time freely about garden shrub- 

 beries, and particularly about tall bushes of blackthorn, or 

 in the oi^en glades of woods and the lanes near them. Some- 

 times abundant in the New Forest, and frequent in other 

 parts of Hants, as well as in Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, 

 Berks, and Somerset ; also in Devon, extending on the hills 

 of Dartmoor to 1000 feet above sea-level ; rather scarce in 

 Cornwall ; found in Cxloucestershire. Bucks, Essex, Suffolk, 

 Cambridgeshire, and rarely in Norfolk ; also in Hereford- 

 shire, locally in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmore- 

 land, and Cumberland, and rarely in Durham and North- 

 umberland. In Wales I find no record save that of Mr.^'ivian 

 in (ilamorganshirr, and my own at Pembroke, where it was 



