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Or, head shining chestnut, dorsal plate still black ban-ed 

 with white, but general colour of the body light chestnut-red, 

 with the under-surface, legs, and prolegs pale yellow-grey ; 

 dorsal stripe bluish-grey ; raised dots brown ; but spii'acles 

 and the pairs of dots below them still black, and a black anal 

 plate divided with white at the dorsal line. 



Or, ground colour of the dorsal region above the spiracles 

 bluish slate-grey ; dorsal line and all the surface below the 

 spiracles dull pale greyish-green ; head and usual raised dots, 

 as well as the spiracles and their attendant spots, black ; but 

 a subdorsal line visible, dull yellowish-red. When younger 

 this subdorsal line is more conspicuous ; the ground colour 

 bluish-grey and the dorsal and spiracular lines white. 



August to April. or May, on grass, feeding at night, hiding 

 among the roots by day. When full grown rather fond of 

 making itself a chamber under moss at the foot of a tree. 



Pupa of very ordinary form, wing and limb covers and 

 thoracic portion brightly polished and smooth ; dorsal and 

 abdominal segments rather broadly banded on the anterior 

 margin with sculpture of minute punctures ; general colour 

 deep chestnut-brown, cremaster short and broad, with small 

 lateral points and a pair of long hooked bristles of a darker 

 brown. Under moss or rubbish on or under the ground. 



The moth hides, like its congeners, among grass and 

 herbage in the daytime, or occasionally on a fence or wall, or 

 under any covert; flying at dusk and coming readily to 

 sugar, also commonly flying along hedge-sides and lanes, and 

 frequenting any attractive flowers, such as raspberry blossom. 

 Common in all parts of the United Kingdom to the Shetland 

 Isles and in many parts abundant ; varying locally as already 

 detailed. Abroad its range is very wide. Central and 

 Northern Europe, Northern Italy, Southern and Eastern 

 Russia, Eastern Siberia, Japan, the mountain regions of 

 Central Asia ; and also parts of North America, where it is 

 known as A", vultuosa. 



