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Bickleigh Vale, and other Devonshire localities ; also from 

 Cornwall, Somersetshire, Gloucestershire (the Cotswolds), and 

 Monmouthshire. 



Staudinger and other recent authors have adopted ribeata^ 

 Clerck, for this species. 



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" ///■ Mottled Beauty {Boarmia repandata), '^^S^ 



Two examples of the more ordinary mottled form of this ^/-^ • 

 species are shown on Plate 132, Figs. 3 J, and 4 ?. Fig. 6 

 represents ab. destrigaria, Haworth {imcraria^ Curtis) ; and 

 Fig. 5 depicts a specimen near var. sodorejisium, Weir, from the 

 Isle of Lewis. Dark-brown forms, inclining to blackish, are 

 not uncommon in the London district, but in South Yorkshire 

 coal-black specimens with whitish submarginal lines occur ; a 

 sooty black example from the Sheffield district is figured on 

 Plate 134, Fig. 4, and, it may be added, these melanic forms 

 are referable to ab. 7zigrzcata, Fuchs. 



Two forms of ab. conversaria, Hiibner, will be found on 

 Plate 134, where Fig. i depicts a specimen from the New Forest, 

 and Fig. 8 represents an extreme example from North Devon. 

 The co7iversa7'ia form occurs chiefly in the south and west of 

 England, and is perhaps most plentiful along the North Devon 

 coast ; also in South Wales ; Durham (rarely, on the coast). 

 Broad dark banded specimens are recorded from Arran and 

 Argyll. 



The caterpillar (figured on Plate 131, Fig. 2, after Sich) is 

 brownish inclining to ochreous ; a dark brownish line along the 

 middle of the back, and a series of brownish diamond-shaped 

 marks most distinct on the back of the middle rings ; a line of 

 blackish marks along the sides shows up in the paler examples. 

 Sometimes the general colour is dark reddish brown, freckled 

 with dark brown ; but in all cases the underside is paler than 

 the upper, and is striped and lined with dark and pale brown. 



