270 l.r.PinOPTF.RA. 



light full green ; dors;il line slender, dark green, bordered by 

 the ground colour; sub<lorsiil line ]iale yellow, or yellowish- 

 white ; in some individuals abroad purple-red stripe extends 

 from the second to the thirteenth segment and includes the 

 ventral and anal pairs of prolegs ; in others this stripe is 

 rose-pink, much narrower, and extends from the third to the 

 tenth segment ; others have only a row of five or six irregular 

 dashes of ])ink ; whilst in a great many there is no pink 

 whatever to be seen, but instead a slender stripe of a dark 

 tint of the ground cnjour running along the spiracles ; seg- 

 mental folds yi-llow ; I'aised dots and spiracles whitish ; anal 

 points sometimes piids, sometimes green. \\ hen newly 

 hatched dirty white aiul somewhat translucent. After a 

 change of skin it becomes greenish, and some individuals 

 soon acquire a pink spiracidar stripe, wliicli, however, occa- 

 sionally disappears at the last moult. fUev. J. Ilellins.) 



August or September till Ajiril or the beginning of May, 

 hybernating when not more than half an inch long; second 

 generation in the latter part of June and in -luly ; on wild 

 strawberry (FnKjaria n-sni), hawthorn, sallow, birch, elm, 

 cherry, bramble, dock, ;uul whortleberry; Hofmann adds 

 honeysuckle and (icriunuiii liohni iitnv m. 



I'ri'.v very lively ; semitransparent yellow-green ; segments 

 set with single bristles; cremaster broadly conical, lluted 

 above, terminateil wit ii four, or sometimes two, tiiu' hooks, 

 (liogenhofer.) 



'I'lie moth hides during the day in hedges or bushes any- 

 where, and in woods among the undergrowth, but Hies out 

 promptly if disturbed, and dashes otf to seek a similar hiding 

 place elsewhere, it Hies naturally at dusk and so abounds 

 along the hedge sides as to render the cajiture of other 

 species com])aratively dillicult. .Apparently abundant 

 wlieiever buslirs or trees are to he found in country districts 

 throughout the I'nited Kingdom, e.xcept in the Shetland 

 Isles ; also in smaller numbers in gardens and shrubberies 



