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nearly straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 oblique ; silky bright yellow, with four oblique dark red 

 transverse stripes, the first a basal blotch, the second and 

 fourth nearly straight, but the third forked above the anal 

 angle ; cilia pale red. Hind wings small, smoky -black with 

 cilia of the same colour. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull smoky-brown, with two 

 thin yellow streaks along the costa. Hind wings dark smoke 

 colour. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva sluggish ; yellow with a pale green dorsal vessel ; 

 head hazle-brown ; dorsal plate paler brown ; anal plate 

 grey. (Wilkinson.) 



March to June on juniper, in a small web spun over the 

 young twigs, residing in a silken tube lined with excrement. 

 (Von Hey den.) 



Pupa in the larval habitation. 



An extremely local species, found among juniper in the 

 chalk hills and downs of the South of England. Very easily 

 overlooked, since if beaten out of the juniper if flies but a 

 short distance, close to the ground, and from its colouring is 

 difficult to see upon the wing. Towards sunset it flits from 

 twig to twig and is then more noticeable. Its only localities 

 in this country, as recorded, seem to be the county of Surrey 

 — -Croydon, Mickleham, Caterham and Sanderstead — and it 

 is almost certainly absent from the other portions of the 

 United Kingdom. Abroad it is fairly common in Central 

 and Northern Europe, Carniola, and Dalmatia ; and in North 

 America in Maine, and New York State. 



Genus 6. XANTHOSETIA. 



Antennas simple, slender ; palpi drooping but porrected, 

 pointed, slender ; face very oblique ; fore wings broad, costa 



