278 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



115, Figs. 2, 2a. The former is yellowish brown, variegated with 

 reddish and violet ; it feeds on honeysuckle, lilac, and privet, 

 and may be beaten or searched for in May and early June, 

 after hibernation. I have found it commonly on privet hedges 

 in the Mill Hill district, Middlesex, but in woods, and especially 

 in the New Forest, it is obtained from honeysuckle. In my 

 experience, the privet-feeding caterpillars always produce larger 

 moths than those reared from caterpillars fed on honeysuckle. 

 The moth emerges in June and July, the former month chiefly 

 in confinement, and from such early moths a second generation 

 may be obtained in the autumn. 



Although most frequent in the southern half of England 

 and Wales, the range of the species extends to the northern 

 counties ; and single specimens have been recorded from 

 Durham and Northumberland, but the species has not been 

 noted in Scotland. 



The distribution abroad extends to Amurland and Japan. 



Scalloped Hazel {Go?todonHs bidefitata). 



This species varies in ground colour, from pale whity brown 

 through shades of grey brown, olive brown, ochreous, and 

 dark brown to black ; the blackish cross lines of the fore wings 

 are generally edged with white, but the edging is sometimes 

 absent, and occasionally it alone remains distinct ; the central 

 space enclosed by the cross lines is often darker than the 

 general colour, and not infrequently it is faintly reddish. 

 Figs. I and 2, Plate 114, represent two of the more usual forms 

 of the species. Fig. 3 is the black ab. nigra, Prout, which 

 occurs on the mosses of Lancashire, and in Yorkshire. 



The yellowish and brown mottled, purplish caterpillar is 

 figured on Plate 115, where also are shown the eggs (turquoise 

 blue, changing to reddish brown), and the reddish brown 

 chrysalis. The latter, which is twice the natural size, is from 



