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a chestnut spot ; near the apex of this triangular spot is a 

 dot of raised brown scales, and beneath it another ; cilia pale 

 chestnut. Hind wings smokj^ white ; cilia white with a 

 chestnut shading. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale brown with 

 yellowish costal dots. Hind wings yellowish-white. 



Variable in the ground colour of the fore wings from 

 reddish drab to deep dark red ; and in that of the blotch, as 

 already pointed out, from black to red, also liable occasionallj^ 

 to suffusion of the colour of the blotch over the ground 

 colour. 



On the wing from July till September. 



Larva apparently undescribed. Mr. A. Thurnall has reared 

 it from blackthorn and also from a species of willow. 

 Wilkinson gives as food-plants " sallow and willow " ; Sor- 

 hagen adds Buhus idceus, Comarum palustrc and Vaccinium 

 ■myrtillun. 



By many entomologists this is considered to be merely a 

 variety of the last, and for this there is much apparent 

 reason, since they are usually to be found at precisely the 

 same time, and in the same localities. There seems to me to be 

 some little difference in the shape of the fore wings, the pre- 

 sent species having them a little broader and more blunt than 

 the other. It is important also to notice that the white 

 edging which precedes the costal blotch in /'. schdkriana is 

 never seen in the present species. 



It inhabits lanes and the borders of woods, and hides more 

 especially in hedges whence it is readily beaten out, and in- 

 clined to fly vigorously away. Common almost all over 

 England except perhaps in some of the Midland counties ; 

 but in Wales I have only found it in Pembrokeshire. In 

 Scotland common throughout the Lowlands, but hardly re- 

 corded from the hill districts. In Ireland found near Dublin, 

 Cork, Armagh, and Enniskillen.and in Connemara. Abroad 



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