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least two records from Scotland (Perthshire). In Ireland, Mr. 

 W. F. de V. Kane took one example from a wall in co. Clare, 

 and another has been recorded from Galway. 



The range of the species abroad extends to Siberia and 

 Amurland; and it is represented in Corea a:?d Japan by A. 

 yokohaincB^ Butler. 



The Shoulder Stripe {A^itidea badiatd). 



The ground colour of the fore wings is pale ochreous brown, 

 inclining to whitish ; there are three dark-edged black cross- 

 lines, the first of them sharply bent below the front margin, 

 the second is rather oblique, and the third is wavy and often 

 not clearly defined towards the inner margin ; the outer 

 marginal area is broadly bordered with pale reddish brown or 

 dark purplish brown, there is a black streak from the more or 

 less indistinct, whitish submarginal line to the tips of the wings, 

 and a white mark about the middle of the line ; the ground 

 colour is most in evidence on the central area of the wings, 

 but even here it is frequently reduced to a slender band, or 

 occasionally only a patch near the front margin of the wing. 

 (Plate ZZ, Figs. 2-4.) 



The caterpillar (Plate 89, Fig. i) is green, inclining to yellow 

 between the rings ; the spiracles are black, and there is some- 

 times a pinkish brown or purplish stripe along their area. 

 Varies in general colour, and also in marking. It feeds, at 

 night, on wild rose, and may be beaten from the bushes from 

 May to July. When full grown it forms an oval cocoon in the 

 earth, and therein changes to a chrysalis (Plate 89, Fig. la), 

 which is dark reddish brown, inclining to blackish on the 

 thorax, wing-cases, and the front edges of the body rings. 



The moth appears in March and April, and may be obtained 

 from almost any hedgerow, where wild rose is plentiful, through- 

 out the British Isles, except that it seems not to extend north of 

 Moray in Scotland. 



