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and the hind smoky brown ; wliile a female hcas assumed the 

 purple markings of the male, but darker and more distinctly 

 visible. On the other hand. ^Ir. H. J. Turner possesses a 

 female of a rich chestnut-red. 



On the wing from the end of June through July and 

 August. 



Lakva elongate, slender, having the sides wrinkled, and an 

 anal point projecting behind ; face slojiing forward, head 

 whitish with black markings on each lobe ; general colour 

 ochreous, paler at each e.Ktremitj-, where the dark brown 

 dorsal line is most conspicuous; subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines white, the upper edge of the former shaded with red, 

 more conspicuously so at the segmental divisions ; sides 

 faintly clouded with red ; spiracles black ; on the uudersnr- 

 face is a grey central line edged on either side with dusky 

 white ; anal flap shaded with grey ; and a dark grey streak 

 on the front of each proleg. (C'has. Fenn.) 



April till June or even July, on sallow, willow, and birch ; 

 also said on the Continent to feed on cranberry and ,'<aliii:i. 



The winter is passed in the egg state. 



I'lTA rather elongated, the surface very dull but hardly per- 

 ceptibly sculptured ; general colour ochreous ; wing-covers dis- 

 tinctly striped with dark brown on the nervures ; down the 

 dorsal region is a broad lirown stripe ; segments much spotted 

 on the sides with the same colour ; cremaster broadly wedge- 

 shaped and covered with bristles; eyes and wing and antennap- 

 covers outlined with brown. Spun up loosely, but attached 

 by the tail, under leaves on the ground. 



The moth is sluggish in the daytime, and the female is so 

 at "// times, hiding in thick hedges and bushes in dam]) 

 lanes and woods, also among sallow and heather in open 

 heaths and bogs. Plentiful in fens, and the male to be 

 found Hying, often iu multitudes, at dusk, on boggy heaths. 

 Apparently not common in Cornwall and Devon, nor in 



