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is blackish and curved; second line also blackish and 

 slightly waved; central shade dark grey; central spot 

 blackish. Hind wings dull reddish-yellow, crossed by 

 a slender line near the inner corner, and another clear 

 slender one near the middle, with a conspicuous black 

 spot near the former one. 



Localities for this species are York, Stowmarket, Lewes, 

 Lewisham, Bristol, Faversham, Barnstaple, Pembury, 

 Exeter, Newnham, Lyndhurst, Manchester, Kingsbury, 

 Brighton, Halton, Plymouth, Tenterden. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July, the 

 beginning. 



The . caterpillar is dull yellowish, with a broad line 

 along the back, scarcely showing on the front portion. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 July. 



It feeds on the bedstraw (Galium verum), the convol- 

 vulus {Convolvulus major}. 



The chrysalis occurs under the ground. 



TIMANDRA AMATARIA. 

 BLOOD-VEIN. 



Plate XXV. Figure 1. 



THIS insect measures from a little over an inch to 

 an inch and a quarter in width. 



Male: fore wings pale grey, with a streak of deep red 

 running from the outer corner slantwise to the middle of 

 the lower margin. The first line is very indistinct; third 

 line grey and waved, slender and distinct : central spot 

 blackish. Hind wings grey, crossed by a nearly straight 



