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lowish-white streak, aud some similar dots ou the costa. 

 Hind wings smoky black. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva cylindrical, slender, active; pale yellow, tinged 

 behind with red, and having a greenish dorsal region ; head 

 and dorsal plate light brown, both darker on the posterior 

 edge. 



May and June ou privet, yew, larch, apricot aud other 

 fruit trees, oak, and sometimes on herbaceous plants. I have 

 reared it even upon dog's mercury. Sorhagen says that it 

 also feeds on laurel, Snii/ax aspart, and even on small Coni- 

 feras. Sometimes it gains access to greenhouses and attacks 

 the vines, eating out the pulp of the young grapes and doing 

 great mischief. 



Pupa rather short, ta]ieriug sharply behind ; rich chestnut- 

 brown ; wing-covers dull, with the nervures faintly visible ; 

 limb-covers glossy ; segments furnished with two toothed 

 ridges; cremaster short and blunt, furnished with hooked 

 bristles. In a soft white silken cocoon, under a turned- 

 down leaf. 



The male is exceedingly lively aud active in the sunshine, 

 flying about privet hedges and over yew-trees and bushes '; 

 the female sits in the same trees, but is readily induced to 

 fly by the beating-stick. At dusk both sexes are again on 

 the wing, and will come to the sugar laid upon tree-trunks 

 to attract Noctuas. In dull weather both sexes sit on palino-s 

 and tree-trunks as well as in the trees. Abundant in gar- 

 dens, shrubberies, and roadsides, as well as in the borders of 

 woods throughout the Southern half of England, and not 

 scarce in Wales and in the remainder to Yorkshire and 

 Lancashire, though rare in Durham and Northumberland ; 

 also to be found in Scotland, in Roxburghshire, the Edin- 

 burgh district, and the t!lyde Valley with Dumbartonshire ; 

 in Ireland recorded from Kerry, and also from around Belfast 



