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the last species in size, but the wings are somewhat rounder, 

 darker, and not so sillcy in appearance ; the body, near the 

 thorax, is ochreous brown. Also known as isogrammaria, 

 Herrich-Schaeffer, but haworthzata, Doubleday, is stated by 

 Prout to be the older name. 



In July and August the caterpillar (Plate 90, Fig. 3) may 

 be found in the flower-buds of the traveller's joy or old man's 

 beard {Clematis vitalba). It is green, with a bluish or pinkish 

 tinge, and there are generally three darker stripes along the 

 back, but these are sometimes absent ; occasionally the ground 

 colour is yellowish. 



The moth is out in June and July, and may be seen flying 

 about clematis in the sunshine, but such specimens are not 

 often worth taking. It is easily reared from caterpillars, which 

 will thrive on flowers of garden Clematis^ and may be obtained 

 by the score, either by beating, or by searching for discoloured 

 or black-specked flower buds of the traveller's joy. 



The species is most frequent in the south of England, but it 

 occurs in all the eastern, some of the midland, and also in the 

 northern counties to Lancashire and Yorkshire ; in the last- 

 named county, Porritt states that the caterpillars were found in 

 profusion on Clematis near Wadworth, Doncaster, in 1901. It 

 inhabits South Wales and Ireland. 



Abroad, the species ranges to Amurland and China. 



Yalerian Pug {Eupithccla valeria?iata). 



The fore wings of this species (Plate 98, Fig. 3) are brownish 

 grey, with indistinct darker cross lines, and a wavy whitish sub- 

 marginal line ; the latter is sometimes not clear, except towards 

 the inner angle. 



Caterpillar, rather short, bright green, with three darker 

 green lines along the back ; a whitish line low down along 

 the sides, and the ring-divisions are yellow. It feeds, in July- 



