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reared in confinement, it emerges from the chrysalis about a 

 month earlier. Ivy bloom, ripe yew berries, and also sugar 

 attract it in the autumn, and in the spring it visits the blossoms 

 of sallow, damson, and sloe. There are several records of its 

 having been taken at light, perhaps the latest of these being 

 that of a specimen captured at Exeter on April ii, 1906. 



Except in Devonshire, where it is of more regular occurrence, 

 the species is far from common in England, but is taken in, or 

 has been recorded from, the counties of Dorset,Wilts, Gloucester, 

 Hereford, Monmouth (S. Wales), Hants and Isle of Wight, 

 Sussex, Surrey, Berks, Bucks, and Cambridge. In Ireland it 

 is noted from Dublin, King's County, Kerry, Wicklow, and 

 Galway. 



It is represented in Japan by the larger 2ih. fornaxj Butler. 



The Satellite {EtipsUia {Scopelosoma) satelliiia). 



An example of each sex of this species is shown on Plate 12, 

 together with a less common form. Although specimens vary 

 in the amount of red in the colour of the fore wings, there is 

 more striking aberration in the colour of the lunular marks 

 representing the reniform stigma ; these are frequently white, 

 but may be yellow (typical), or reddish orange in either sex. 

 The dull brownish specimen (Fig. 3) is from Yorkshire, and 

 appears to be referable to var. brunnea, Lampa. 



The caterpillar is dark brown, with indistinct paler lines on 

 the back ; the line along the spiracles is white or whitish, but 

 often reduced to a series of spots on rings i, 2, 5, and 11. 

 Head, ochreous-brown, darker about the mouth. It feeds, in 

 May and June, on the leaves of oak, beech, elm, and other trees, 

 also on low plants ; and has a keen appetite, it is said, for other 

 caterpillars when the opportunity offers. 



The moth is out in September, and may be seen at ivy bloom 

 or sii^ar during that month, and also in October and November 



