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those on the anterior wings consisting of a large 

 patch before the middle, then an irregular curved 

 band intersected by the black nervures, and lastly, 

 a faint row of tawny dots parallel with the hinder 

 margin. On each of the secondary wings are three 

 discoidal spots, one of them larger than the others, 

 and a posterior band of small dots. The fringe of 

 all the wings is tawny at the tip. The under side 

 is yellow, inclining to grey, the upper wings with 

 several marks, and the extremity of the nervures 

 black ; the under pair with seven rounded yellowish- 

 white spots, and a posterior macular band of the 

 same colour. Antennae pale beneath, the tip of 

 the club reddish yellow. 



The caterpillar, which feeds on the Greater Plan- 

 tain, is described as being dark-brown on the back, 

 with the sides lighter, and ornamented with two 

 longitudinal yellow stripes; the head black, and 

 the segment behind it with an orange-coloured 

 band. 



This prettily marked insect is regarded as very 

 local, but its localities are pretty widely scattered, 

 and many of them afford it in tolerable plenty. It 

 frequents meadows and damp woods, usually ap- 

 pearing in the end of May and June. It is found 

 in Devonshire, near Bedford, in Northamptonshire, 

 Oxford, &c. 



