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line also brown, curved, and indented; third line yellowish 

 white; central shade brown. Hind wings dull yellowish, 

 crossed with three bands of dark brown, which also 

 borders the margin. 



Female: fore wings whitish, mottled with grey. Hind 

 wings whitish, mottled with grey. 



Localities for this common species are Stockton Com- 

 mon near York, Scarborough, Anstey, West Looe, Butter- 

 crambe Moor, Black Park, Stowmarket, Perry Wood near 

 Faversham, Exeter, Pembury, Worthing, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, Lyndhurst, Glasgow, Manchester, Lewes, Brighton, 

 Edinburgh, Cambridge, Barnstaple, Halton, Huddersfield, 

 Newnham, Simonswood near Liverpool. 



The perfect insect appears in May and June. 



The caterpillar is reddish-brown mottled with black, 

 and with a pale line on the sides. It varies much. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 June and September. 



It feeds on the black knapweed ( Centaur ea nigraj, 

 and the bird's-foot trefoil (Lotas corniculatus J . 



The chrysalis occurs underneath the ground. 



This moth flies in the day-time. 



FIDONIA PINTAR1A. 

 BORDERED WHITE. 



Plate XXYI. Figure 6. 



THIS insect measures an inch and a quarter or a little 

 over in width. 



Male: fore wings white, or yellowish- white on the 

 middle part, with a broad line along it diverging into two 



