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MACARIA LITURARIA. 



TAWNY BARRED ANGLE. 



Plate XXV. Figure 10. 



THIS insect measures from a little over an inch to an 

 inch and a quarter across. 



Male: fore wings bluish-grey with a tinge of reddish 

 purple, half line rather darkish grey. The first line 

 darker grey but indistinct, darker near the upper margin; 

 second line also darker grey, deepest towards the margin, 

 and beyond it is a broad shade of tawny: central line 

 darker grey but indistinct, the outer corner dotted on 

 the margin with black. Hind wings pale bluish-grey 

 crossed by a faint line of darker grey near the inner 

 corner, followed by another across the middle, and another 

 beyond it, the colour between these two latter being of a 

 dull yellowish grey hue; the outer corner dotted on 

 the margin with black. 



Localities for this species are York, Londesborough, 

 Scarborough, Huddersfield, Black Forest, Buttercrambe 

 Moor, Harrogate, Inverary, Worthing, Black Park, Perth, 

 Manchester, Newnham, Exeter, Edinburgh, Pembury, 

 Lower Guiting, Stirling, Brighton, Stowmarket, Bristol, 

 Birkenhead, Wavendon, Bowdon, Lyndhurst. 



The situations where it is found are fir plantations 

 and woods. 



The perfect insect appears in July, and is often to 

 be seen at rest on the trunks of trees. 



The caterpillar is green, with a whitish line along the 

 back, another below it, and another on the sides; the 

 head brown. 



