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not following the colour of the body ; twelfth segment also 

 with a short dorsal tuft, similarly coloured ; dorsal stripe 

 rather broad, much interrupted, grey, blackish, or mixed 

 black and red, sometimes broken up into dots and dashes ; 

 subdorsal line a series of dashes or streaks, usually dark 

 grey or brown, not always visible ; spiracular region usually 

 occupied by a broad stripe of red, red-brown, red and yellow, 

 or even grey and white, most uncertain ; spiracles whitish 

 or yellowish, ringed with black ; legs and prolegs pale 

 reddish, yellowish, or grey. In the paler specimens some of 

 the usual raised spots, from which the hairs spring, are dis- 

 tinct and slightly ringed with black. 



June and July and again in September, on beech, oak, 

 hazel, hornbeam, maple, and birch, preferring bushes to trees, 

 and particularly affecting hill tops and sides, and hedges 

 in other exposed situations. When not feeding it hides 

 between two leaves, and when about to cast its skin forms 

 a slight web in a similar habitation. 



Pupa rather short, stout, and wrinkled ; anal point with 

 two hooks ; reddish-brown. In a thin silken cocoon among 

 leaves, moss, or rubbish, or even in crevices of bark (C. Fenn). 

 It passes the winter in this condition, but pupae from July 

 larvee usually produce moths in the autumn. 



The moth sits on the trunks or branches of trees or bushes 

 in the daytime and is very seldom observed ; it flies at night 

 along hedges and wood-paths, but is rarely so captured. The 

 male is so restless that it hardly waits for its wings to dry 

 before moving, and rapidly becomes worn. Very widely 

 distributed, and sometimes found commonly in the larva 

 state. Plentiful in Devonshire, and also in Berks and 

 Bucks on the hills among beech. Less commonly in all the 

 southern and eastern counties and in the west to Hereford- 

 shire and Lancashire ; found also rarely in Staffordshire, 

 Yorkshire and Northumberland, and most likely not entirely 

 absent from suitable spots in any English county. 



