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MACARIA NOTARIA. 

 PEACOCK. 



Plate XXV. Figure 9. 



THIS insect measures from a little over an inch to an 

 inch and a quarter across. 



Male: fore wings of a whitish colour, with four chesnut 

 red marks on the upper margin. The first line is grey 

 but indistinct; second line grey but indistinct, with a 

 conspicuous black spot in the middle of it, divided 

 by three yellow lines, and beyond it adjoining the 

 upper margin, a tawny blot or patch; third line also grey 

 and indistinct, forming a band; central line grey but 

 indistinct. Hind wings crossed by a rather broad streak, 

 and another narrow one within it, towards the inner 

 corner; central spot black. 



Localities for this species are Exeter, Darenth Wood, 

 Worthing, Tenterden, West Wickharn, Brighton, Faver- 

 sham, Plymouth, Pembury, West Looe, Newnham, Lynd- 

 hurst, Killarney. 



The caterpillar is dark green on the upper part, with a 

 row of yellowish-brown spots along the back; the sides 

 yellowish-brown. 



It feeds on the sallow. 



The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon on the ground. 



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