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The caterpillar is greenish-grey, with black stripes 

 spotted with white and red; the head is dark brown 

 with two white lines. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 August and September. 



It feeds on lichens of different sorts. 



This species flies in the sunshine about the tops of the 

 trees mentioned above, but is also to be taken perched 

 on blades of grass. 



EULEPIA GRAMMICA. 

 Plate X. Figure 2. 



THIS insect measures from an inch and a third to 

 nearly an inch and a half in width. Male: fore wings 

 yellowish-buff with a tinge of green rayed with black, 

 and with a spot of the same a little beyond and above 

 the middle. Hind wings yellowish tinged with orange, 

 and with a rather broad border composed of a series 

 of oblong spots, more or less run together in different 

 specimens, and a crescent shaped spot near the centre. 



Localities for this species are "Windsor and Anglesea. 



The perfect insect is said variously to appear in June 

 and July, in September and October. 



The caterpillar is dark blackish-brown, with a yellow- 

 ish-orange streak along the back, a white line on each 

 side, and reddish spots, each the base of a tuft of hairs. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in May. 



It feeds on the fescue-grass (Festuca duritisculaj, 

 heath ( Call ana vulgar is J, the hawkweed ( Hieracium 

 pilosella), mugwort (Artemisia vulgarisj, field southern- 

 wood (Artemisia campestris } , and other plants. 



