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blackish, the others brown with dashes of the same colour 

 below ; discal spot, black and streak-like (Plate 96, Fig. 2). 



The long, slightly roughened caterpillar is green, inclining 

 to yellowish, especially between the rings ; reddish marks on 

 the back connected by a slender line of the same colour ; head, 

 green, flecked with reddish. It feeds, on apple, eating flowers 

 and leaves, in May and June. Also said to eat hawthorn and 

 sloe. The moth is out in April and May, but it is rarely met 

 with in the open. If, however, one is lucky enough to capture 

 a female, and fertile eggs are obtained, moths should hardly 

 fail to result. From these the stock might go on increasing 

 year by year for quite a long period. Ten specimens presented 

 to the National Collection of British Lepidoptera in 1904, by 

 the late Mrs. Hutchinson, were bred in April of the previous 

 year, and were the direct descendants of a female captured in 

 1874, at Grantsfield, Herefordshire. 



Other counties in England from which the species has 

 been recorded are — Worcester (Birchwood), Gloucester, Somer- 

 set, Wilts., Hants (Hayling Island), Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Berks., 

 Bucks., Huntingdon, Cambridge (once bred from mixed larv^ 

 beaten from hawthorn on the " Gogs "), Suffolk (beaten from 

 hawthorn at Brandon, Tuddenham, etc.), and Norfolk. 



As insig7iiata^ Hiibner, is claimed to be at least two years 

 older than consignata^ Borkhausen, the former name will have 

 to be adopted for this species. 



Netted Pug {Eiipi/heda venosatd). 



This moth has also been named by the old authors " the Pretty 

 Widow Moth." On Plate 93 are shown four examples ; the 

 typical form (Fig. 2), in which the fore wings are pale greyish, 

 with black cross lines, two of which are edged with whitish ; var. 

 fumoscz^ Gregson = mibilata^ Bohatsch (Fig. 5) — the Shetland 

 race — is brownish grey, with the markings obscure ; Fig. 8 



