Wallasey near Birkenhead. Falmouth, Bowdon, Bristol, 

 Hammersmith, Worcester, Worthing, Lcwisham, Stow- 

 market, Cambridge, Arundel, Scarborough, Manchester, 

 Preston, Huddersfield, Edinburgh, Stirling, Darlington, 

 and Burton-on-Trent. 



The perfect insect appears in June. 



The caterpillar is brownish orange on the fore part, 

 and greenish yellow on the hinder; the line along the 

 back only indistinct; the line below it marked by a 

 row of white dots from which some dark streaks run 

 upwards; the spots white. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 July and August. 



It feeds on the Bladder Campion (Silenc inflat(i). 



DIANTHJECIA CONSPERSA. 

 Plate LXI. Figure 3. 



Localities for this species are York, Stockton Forest, 

 Sutton-on-Derwent, Brighton, Kirkby and Bickerstaffe 

 near Liverpool, Scarborough, Witney, Bowdon, Carlisle, 

 Edinburgh, Manchester, Lewes, Halton, Arran, Dunbar, 

 Cambridge. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July. 



The caterpillar is dull yellowish red, with a grey line 

 along the back, and slanting lines from it on each seg- 

 ment; the side line whitish, edged above with grey. 



It feeds on the Bladder Campion (Silcne inflata}, the 

 Catchfly (Silcne nutans), and the Ragged Robin (Lychnis 

 Flos-cuculi} . 



