LARGE TWIN-SPOT CARPET. 1 79 



Huddersfield, Yorks., and a modification of it at Dover. On 

 Plate 72, Fig. i shows the typical form, Fig. 3 ab. piceata, and 

 2 the Dover form. The caterpillar varies from greyish, with 

 pinkish or greenish tinge, 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 central stripe on 1-3, and a dark one on 9-12 ; 

 head, brownish, marked with black. It feeds on goose-grass 

 {Galium 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 {Ochyria) 

 q^iadrifasciaria). 



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 

 mere frequently perhaps the middle area is pretty much of the 

 ground colour 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 submarginal line j frequently there are two blackish 



