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Localities for this species are Fairbrook near Faversham, 

 Halton, Blandford, Leicester, Winchester, Worthing, Naf- 

 ferton, where I took one myself in the vicarage garden ; 

 Canterbury, Dorking, Xewhaven, Ramsgate, Southport, 

 Exeter, Kingsbury, Stowmarket, Bisterne, Birkenhead, 

 Sudbury, Reading, Lewes, Cambridge, Epping, Tenterden. 



The perfect insect appears the end of July and be- 

 ginning of August. 



The caterpillar is whitish, with a black line interrupted 

 with red on each side of the back, the sides bluish-white 

 dotted with black, and with a row of red spots. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 May and June. 



It feeds on the poplar and the willow. 



LIPARIS D 1ST A 11. 



GIPSY. 

 Plate XII. Figure 1. 



THIS insect measures from rather above one inch and 

 a half to two inches and a half, or even three inches 

 across, in some specimens. 



Male: fore wings dark brown mingled with dull yellow- 

 ish, with rather darker blackish-brown waved lines and 

 bars across. Hind wings blackish-brown, mingled with 

 dull yellowish, darker round the margin. 



Female: fore wings greyish white, with the rudiments 

 of two or three bars from the upper and lower margins, 

 a brownish-black spot a little way within the former 

 towards the centre, and a brownish black mark in the 

 shape of a <j beyond it, and a dot of the same near 

 the inner corner. Hind wings greyish-white. 



