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Localities for this species are York, Black Park, 

 Halton, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Huddersfield, 

 Brighton, Dorking, Bere Forest, Tenterden, Stowmarket, 

 Bristol, Pembury, Darlington, Cambridge, Edinburgh, 

 Lymington, Scarborough, Exeter, Lewes, Barnstaple, 

 Birkenhead, Worthing. 



The perfect insect appears in July and August. 



The caterpillar is dull brownish-green, with a black 

 line along the back, and a row of white dots on each 

 side of it. The head orange coloured. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 September, and again in May. 



It feeds on the oak, the beech, the birch, and the 

 hornbeam. 



EL LOP I A FA SCI ARIA. 



BARRED RED. 

 Plate XVII. Figure 9. 



THIS insect measures from a little under an inch and 

 a half to that width in extent. 



Maler fore wings greyish-red and rather inclined to be 

 transparent, first line darker red and slightly bent, second 

 line also rather more bent near the upper margin, and 

 then curved inwards. Hind wings paler greyish-red 

 crossed with a line of red. 



The female is rather paler than the male. 



Localities for this species are Faversham, Manchester, 

 Scarborough, Bristol, Dartford, Buttercrambe Moor, Bir- 

 kenhead, Lymington, Pembury, Lower Guiting, Darling- 

 ton, Lynton, Preston, Carlisle, Brighton, Wavendon, 

 York, Black Park, Torwood, Stirling, Pvannoch, Inver- 

 ness, Edinburgh. 



