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the head ; light greeu, with a whitish dorsal stripe and two 

 pale subdorsal lines. Over the feet runs a yellower stripe, 

 bordered above with black, especially on the first three seg- 

 ments of the body ; yellowish-white raised dots bearing fine 

 hairs are placed on each segment, two always on each side 

 of the dorsal stripe, and one over the yellow stripe. Head 

 and legs pale green ; spiracles brownish. 



April and May on oak, elm, fruit-trees, especially apple ; 

 rarely on lime. No details of its habits are available, except 

 that Kollar says that it is (abroad) particularly abundant on 

 the apple-trees in company with that of the winter moth 

 {CheimatoUa hrumata), and that the larvjB live scattered 

 upon the trees, and are easily brought down by shaking 

 the branches. This is one of the few species which Mr. 

 Buckler was unable to obtain for figuring. It passes the 

 winter in the egg-state. 



Pupa light brown, with a powdered or frosted appearance. 

 Hofmann says in a lightish cocoon in the earth ; but Kollar 

 states that the pupa state is assumed on the trees themselves. 



The habits of the moth are very little noticed here. Kollar 

 says that it may be beaten out of the apple-trees on which 

 the larva has fed, with a wooden pole. At night it comes 

 occasionally, in its very restricted localities, to sugar or to 

 honeydevv on leaves, or even to light. It has been taken 

 in moderate numbers in Surrey and Berkshire, and in the 

 New Forest and Isle of Wight, Hants ; more rarely in 

 Sussex, Dorset, Devon, Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk, Herts, 

 Oxfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Gloucestershire, Hereford- 

 shire, and Worcestershire ; also in Wales, near Swansea, 

 where sometimes it is not rare, and once in the northern 

 portion of the Principality. This I believe to be the extent 

 of its range in these Islands. Abroad it inhabits most parts 

 of Central Europe, Southern France, Northern Italy, and 

 Tivonia. 



