LARGE TWIN- SPOT CARPET. 179 



in Kent, and Huddersfield, Yorks. On Plate 72, Fig. i shows 

 the typical form, Fig. 3 ab. piceata, and 2 ab. porrittii. The 

 caterpillar varies from greyish, with pinkish or greenish ting-e, 

 to ochreous brown ; the upper surface is rather darker than 

 the under, and there is a series of dark V-shaped marks and 

 arrow-heads on the back of rings 4-8 ; there is a whitish cen- 

 tral stripe on 1-3, and a dark one on 9-12 ; head, brownish, 

 marked with black. It feeds on goose-grass {Calunn aparme), 

 and other kinds of bedstraw, in May and early June. It seems to 

 thrive best, however, on the goose-grass. (Plate 74, Fig. i, 

 after Hofmann.) 



The moth may be found in weedy lanes and along hedge- 

 rows, pretty well throughout England, Wales, Scotland to 

 Moray, and Ireland. It cannot, however, be said to occur in 

 all suitable places, as although it may be found in some plenty 

 in one lane or hedgerow in a district, it may be quite absent in 

 similar spots just around. Wherever it is noted one year it 

 may be almost certainly obtained there in subsequent years. 

 April and May are the months in which it is usually seen, but it 

 has been taken in June in late seasons, and occasionally in 

 July. 



Large Twin-spot Carpet {Coremia {Oc/iyria) 



qiiadrifasciaria) . 



The ground colour of the fore wings of this species is most 

 often of a pale reddish brown, but sometimes it inclines to grey 

 brown ; the outwardly angled central band is often black, but 

 more frequently perhaps the middle area is pretty much of the 

 groundcolour or greyish, with a black dot in the upper portion, 

 and limited by two black lines which approach, or join, in the 

 lower half. A dusky basal blotch is not always present, but it 

 is sometimes well in evidence, as also is a dusky shade before 

 the whitish eubmarginal line ; frequently there are two blackish 



