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The caterpillar is black, and covered with short hairs, 

 with a broad stripe of pale yellow along the back, and 

 another interrupted one on each side. 



The caterpillar is found in August, and thence to May. 



It feeds on the nettle, the willow, the ash, &c. 



This species is subject to considerable variety, not 

 only as to size, but also in the markings and the ground 

 colour of the hind wings. In some specimens the red 

 is almost wholly superseded. 



CALIMORPHA HERA. 

 Plate X. Figure 7. 



THIS insect measures from three inches and a half 

 to three inches and three quarters in expanse. 



Male: fore wings very dark deep green, curiously 

 streaked and marked with cream-M'hite, viz. a narrow 

 line along the lower margin from the inner corner, from 

 which also a short slender curved streak proceeds. Two 

 large ones descend from the upper margin, with two 

 very short marks between them respectively, the outer 

 of the two former ones forming an angular junction with 

 another which follows within the outer margin and the 

 upper part, but meets the edge of the lower, skirted 

 with a row of small spots. Hind wings full rich scarlet 

 red, with two large patches and with two small dots, 

 forming part of a supposititious line or band within the 

 outer margin, and a large spot of the same above the 

 centre. 



Localities for this species are Newhaven in Sussex, 

 where one was captured by a little girl near the end of 

 the main street; Brighton, where one was seen by Mr. 

 Cook, of that town; and Wrcxham, from whence a 



