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ENNOMID2E. 



EPIONE VESPERTARIA. 

 Plate XVII. Figure 2. 



THIS insect measures an inch or a little over in expanse. 



Male: fore wings orange, with numerous short trans- 

 verse lines and marks of a darker shade, a small speck 

 near the middle of similar colour, the first line much 

 curved, and a wide border on the outer margin of purple- 

 red, waved on its inner side. Hind wings orange, also 

 streaked with a darker shade, and with a small central 

 spot of the same, and a wide border on the outer margin 

 of purple.-red. 



Female : fore wings pale whitish-yellow, with a minute 

 dark dot in the centre; the first line red, and the border 

 at the outer margin. Hind wings pale whitish-yellow, 

 the first line, which is much curved, faded red, a small 

 dark speck near the centre, and a wide border of the same 

 on the outer margin embayed on its inner side. 



Localities for this species are near Stockton Station 

 and Stockton Common near York, and Lyndhurst in 

 the New Forest. 



The situations where it is found are heathy places, 

 the moth chiefly addicting itself to the dwarf sallow. 



The perfect insect appears in July and August. 



The caterpillar is brown, with a whitish patch on the 

 sixth segment, and yellow diamond-shaped spots on the 

 seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, as also a 

 narrow white line on each side of the back as far as 

 the sixth. 



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



It feeds on the nut-tree. 



