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boclv dark green with a slender, still darker green dorsal 

 line ; subdorsal lines waved, obscurely white and very slender ; 

 spiracular stripe moderately broad, white or pale yellow, 

 shaded otf above ; undersuriace and legs green. 



May and June ; on privet, ash, and lioueysuckle. Mr. 

 Sydney AVebb found that every young larva, as soon as 

 hatched, ate its way into a leaf-bud of privet, and there made 

 itself at home. "When the bud was hollowed out it would 

 .enter another, and so on until half an inch long, when it 

 began to feed openly upon the leaves and so continued until 

 full fed. It also has a habit of eating out ovate pieces from 

 the leaves. 



Pt'PA green, with a light bi'own cremaster. fHofmann.) 

 In this condition through the winter. 



The moth sits during the day u])on the stems of bushes or 

 on the trunks of trees, often close to the ground, but at this 

 time is not readily induced to fiy. Its time of tlight is from 

 dusk well into the night, when it can easily be obtained with 

 the lielp of a lantrrn, either Hying about the bushes, or 

 attracted by the liuht ; occasionally also it may be found on 

 the blooming sallows. Later at night it sits on the privet 

 bushes and may then be even more easily secured. The 

 clo.sely triangnlar form of its closed wings when at rest in 

 the daytime is very pronounced. An e.xceedingly local 

 species in this country, but found in several places in Sussex 

 and Kent ; also in Essex, 15erks, Wilts, Somerset, Glouce.ster- 

 shire, and Herefordshire, and further in the north-west in 

 North Lancashire, and (."umberland. Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White includes it in his Scottish list for the districts of the 

 Solway and Clyde, but adds that he has not himself seen it. 

 I find no record of its occurrence in either Wales or Ireland. 

 Abroad it is found over the greater part of Central Europe, 

 Northern Italy. Livonia, Fiidand, South Eastern Russia, and 

 the mountainous r.'L;'ii>us of ( 'i-ntral Asia. 



