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Anteuure light broivo ; palpi and head white ; thorax 

 white, dusted with rose-pink ; abdomen gre_y-brown. Fore 

 wings narrowly trigonate, costa nearlj- straight ; hind 

 margin very oblique, sharply angulated ; bright rose-pink 

 or brownish-crimson, dappled or shaded with dull yellow in 

 the basal area ; central band pinkish-tawny, narrow, and 

 not attaining the costa ; anal angle and cilia dappled with 

 tawny. Hind wings and their cilia smoky-white. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden-brown ; costa tinged 

 with pink ; cilia white, tipped with pink and dusky-brown. 

 Hind wings smoky-white. 



On the wing in May and the beginning of June and in 

 another generation in July and August. 



Larva short, plumj:), and lively ; pale green mottled with 

 dirty white, especially between the segments ; head brown, 

 jaws blackish ; dorsal plate green with a narrow black bar 

 across the front ; anal plate pale green. 



September to November, and possibly another brood in 

 June, though this does not seem to be established ; in the 

 flowers and seed heads of Dipsacus s;/lvestns (teazle), eating 

 transversely through the seeds, devouring their interior, and 

 forming a tough silken tunnel from seed to seed through the 

 membranous divisions of the seed-head, but never entering 

 the central chamber. 



Plpa light ; bright ovange-brown ; wing and limb covers 

 brightly shining, abdomen thickly set with fine short 

 bristles, anal segment bluntly rounded. In a tough cocoon 

 in the seed-head of Dipsacus in which the larva has 

 fed ; the moth emerging at the side, among the bristly 

 points. 



This beautiful little species abounds where teazles grow 

 plentifully in chalky ground or in any calcareous soil, and 

 gives the place a very lively appearance as they dance over 



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