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The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 May and June. 



It feeds on the currant, the sloe, &c. 



This species is a very variable one, some being much 

 lighter than others, and some with more yellow. 



ABRAXAS ULMARIA. 



SCARCE MAGPIE. YORKSHIRE MAGPIE. 

 Plate XXVII. Figure 5. 



THIS insect measures from a little under an inch and 

 three quarters to that width across. 



Male : fore wings delicate white with a rich fulvous and 

 brown patch on the inner corner, a large patch of the 

 same on and beyond the middle of the lower margin, with 

 a paler and smaller one on the middle of the upper margin, 

 and a few small pale ones towards and on the outer mar- 

 gin. Hind wings delicate white with a large rich fulvous 

 and brown patch on the middle of the inner margin from 

 which a curved row of paler spots of the same colour runs 

 across, with another between it and the inner corner; the 

 head is brown, thorax brown, body orange-yellow spotted 

 with brown. 



Localities for this species, which though extensively 

 distributed is decidedly local, are York, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, Sadborough, Durham, Ibtowe Wood, Huddersfield, 

 Newnham, Matlock, Darlington, Nunburnholme, Lower 

 Guiting, Warter, Birkenhead, Dorking, Barnstaple, Man- 

 chester, Scarborough, Bristol, West Wickham, Witney, 

 Worcester, Birmingham, Snowden, Llanferias, Holywell, 

 Preston, Whalley. 



