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by iuterniecliate loug-itndinal channels ; \viiit«-coveis uiinntelv 

 covered with ci'oss-wrinklino-, but having tiie nervures verv 

 strongly and prominently marked, dull green with a smoky 

 black stripe down the back of each wing-cover ; dorsal and 

 abdominal segments very dnll from abundance of minute 

 wrinkling and pitting, except the smooth hind-band of each 

 segment ; dull green with two central and two lateral rows 

 of brown spots down the whole length of the back; cremaster 

 a thick blunt knob, having at its tip several minute hooked 

 bristles ; dull pale brown. On the underside of a leaf, upon 

 a thin carpet of silk in which the anal bristles are tightly 

 twisted; iield in place by a fiae silken thread across the 

 back. 



Professor Poulton in the coarse of his experiments noticed 

 that the brown variety of the larva ia eveiy case produced a 

 pupa of which the ground colour was also brown. 



In this condition through the winter. 



The moth is a quiet insect of gentle flight, hiding through 

 the day in maple bushes, under the leaves, in hedges, lanes, 

 or woods, and if disturbed %ing only a very short distance 

 to hide again. At dusk it flies of its own accord, and at 

 night will come to light. Its favourite haunts are the maple 

 bushes growing in beech woods on the chalk hills, but it is 

 by no means uncommon, as already remarked, in lanes and 

 hedges. Mr. Herbert Goss assures me that in the valleys of 

 the Ootswold Hills it is plentiful among hornbeam {Carpinus 

 hrtulus). Formerly it occurred at Dulwich, and in other 

 parts of the suburbs of Loudon ; but has long been expelled ; 

 still it is to be found commonly in suitable places in Kent, 

 1 Sussex, Surrey, Hants — in plenty in the New Forest — locally 

 in Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, Oxfordshire. Bucks. 

 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Northamp- 

 tonshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk; also 

 in Yorkshire, where it is far from rare; but beyond this I 

 :tind no records in these Islands. Abroad it seems to be 



