288 THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Sharp-angled Peacock (Semiothisa altematd). 



Whitish clouded and suffused with greyish ; fore wings 

 crossed by three dark lines, commencing in blackish spots 

 on the front margin ; a greyish band follows the outer line, a 

 reddish brown spot at the costal end, and a blackish spot about 

 the middle, the spot broken up by the veins, which are here 

 ochreous ; a rather deep notch below the tip is edged with 

 black and fringed with blackish. Hind wings with a black 

 central dot, and a greyish band beyond. (Plate 119, Fig. 8.) 



Mr. A. J. ScoUick has recorded that some caterpillars, 

 presumably about a week old on June 24, 1905, went into 

 chrysalis July 7 to 12. One moth emerged July 18, but no 

 other appeared until December 20. A third came up on 

 January 5, 1906, and a fourth on February 5. 



The caterpillar is pale green, with reddish brown blotches on 

 the sides, and sometimes the back is also reddish brown. It 

 feeds on alder, sallow, and sloe, in June, and as a second 

 generation in the autumn. (Eggs and a caterpillar, the latter 

 after Hofmann, are figured on Plate 123.) The moth flies in 

 May and early June, and occasionally in July or August. 



This species, which is always local, is perhaps most frequently 

 met with in the New Forest, Hants, but it is not uncommon in 

 some parts of the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon, and Kent. 

 Also noted from a few other southern counties, and from 

 Suffolk, Norfolk, and Westmoreland. In Wales, it has occurred 

 at Neath, Glamorganshire. 



The range of this species abroad, and also that of the last, 

 extends to Amurland. 



Tawny-barred Angle {Semiothisa liturata). 



The more frequent forms of this species are shown on 

 Plate 119, Figs. 9, 10. In some examples the cross Hues 



