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faint rosy tinge ; in the middle of the wings between the 

 two dark transverse lines are two kidney-shaped whitish 

 spots towards the costa resembling the figure 8 ; the 

 hind- wings are very pale-grey, with a darker transverse 

 line and central lunule, and with a small black dash at 

 the anal angle, which runs into the fringes. 



The fat-looking larva is pale-yellow, with a broad 

 lateral slaty-blue stripe (sometimes the stripe is pale 

 green) ; the head is blue, spotted with black ; it is not 

 at all uncommon in June on hawthorn, but it does feed 

 also on other plants. I once found a whole brood feed- 

 ing on the common laurel. The perfect insect makes 

 its appearance in September ; it comes very freely to 

 light, and on warm autumnal evenings, when the windows 

 are open, it frequently enters houses. 



FAMILY III. NOTODONTID^E. 



CLOSTERA ANAGHORETA. THE SCARCE 

 CHOCOLATE-TIP. 



(Plate IV., Fig. 4.) 



This species, which had long had a legendary place in 

 lists of British insects, was re-discovered some eight 

 years ago by Dr. Knaggs, who bred the insect so freely 

 that he most liberally supplied all our collections with 

 the species ; subsequently, the larva has been on several 

 occasions noticed near Folkestone. 



The expansion of the wings is about 1 J inch. The 

 fore-wings are greyish, with four slender transverse 

 whitish lines, the fourth of which is extremely con- 

 spicuous towards the costa, as it there traverses the 

 fuscous blotch which occupies the apical portion of the 

 wing; the fuscous blotch contains within it a small 



