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The situations where it is found are woods and gardens. 



The perfect insect appears in May and June. 



The caterpillar is variable in colour, brown more or less 

 tinged with darker brown, yellowish, or green, with paler 

 stripes and two whitish prominences on the ninth and 

 twelfth segments. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 August and September. 



It feeds on the elm, the oak, the birch, the poplar, &c. 



The chrysalis is found under the ground. 



BOABMIDJE. 



HEMEROPHILA ABKUI'TARIA. 

 HARK MOTH. WAVED UMBER. 

 Plate XIX. Figure 10. 



THIS insect measures from a little under an inch and a 

 half to a little over that measurement in width. 



Male: fore wings pale brownish-yellow, with a narrow 

 reddish-brown streak along the upper edge, and a wide 

 dark patch of the same within the outer margin, narrowing 

 to the outer corner. Central spot black. Hind wings 

 pale brownish-yellow with numerous slender streaks of 

 reddish-brown and one wide bar of the same across, with 

 a fainter one within it. The antenna; are pectinated 

 nearly to the tip. 



Localities for this species are York, Scarborough, San- 

 dal Beat near Doncaster, Birkenhead, Tenterden, Lewes, 



