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The situations where it is found are woods and gardens 

 where elm trees grow. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July. 



The caterpillar is whitish dotted with black, the sides 

 bluish-grey. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in Sep- 

 tember. 



It feeds on the elm. 



The chrysalis is attached by a slight web to a stem. 



LIGDIA ADUSTARIA. 

 SCORCHED CARPET. 

 Plate XXVII. Figure 6. 



THIS insect measures an inch or a little over in expanse. 



Male: fore wings white or pale cream- white, with a 

 patch of dark purple-brown at the inner corner. Second 

 line bent and waved, followed by a broad bar of purple 

 brown running into the third line, which is only partially 

 continued across; the outer margin is clouded with purple- 

 brown. Hind wings dull white with a light brown waved 

 streak across, another fainter one within it, and some dots 

 between it and the inner corner indicating a third; the 

 margin the same colour. 



Localities for this species are York, Cambridge, Lewis- 

 ham, West Looe, Sudbury, Newnham, Tenterden, Char- 

 mouth, Killarney, Lower Guiting, Lynton, Faversham, 

 Pembury, Lewes, Plymouth, Brighton, Exeter, Dorking, 

 Stowmarket, Halton, Lyndhurst, Barnstaple, Bristol, 

 Ventnor. 



