Male: fore wings dull olive-green, with a blot of a 

 darker shade edged with whitish at the inner corner; 

 central band darker olive-green edged with whitish; cen- 

 tral spot blackish, in some specimens surrounded by a 

 pale mark. 



Localities for this species are Edinburgh, Halton, 

 Rannoch, Dunoon, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Keswick, Glas- 

 gow, Preston, Darlington, Ventnor, Chatsworth, Exeter, 

 Barnstaple, Bristol, Lyndhurst, Manchester, Malvern. 



The perfect insect appears in July. 



The caterpillar is dull brown. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 October and April. 



It feeds on the bedstraw (Galium verum). 



LARENTIA P E CTI N IT ART A. 

 AUTUMN GREEN CARPET. 

 Plate XXVIII. Figure 12. 



THIS insect measures from a little over an inch to one 

 and a quarter in expanse. 



Male: fore wings pale green, half line black, narrowing 

 from the upper margin. The first line is black, broadest 

 at the upper margin, and edged with whitish; second 

 line also black, broadest at the upper margin, and edged 

 with whitish; there is a blackish mark near the outer 

 corner; central shade greyish-green; central spot grey 

 but rather indistinct. Hind wings dull pale greenish- 

 yellow, with two pale brown waved and curved lines 



