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middle ; below this is a slender, blackish streak, spring- 

 ing from the middle of the base ; the two stigmata are 

 margined with white ; the hind- wings are silky white. 



The larva is of a dull reddish-brown, with a row of 

 white dots along the subdorsal line ; it feeds in the 

 spring on various low plants. 



The perfect insect appears in June, and may be 

 found flying along hedges after dusk, being, from the 

 pale hind- wings, very conspicuous ; it also comes freely 

 to sugar and to light. 



FAMILY VIII. OKTHOSID.E. 



T^NIOCAMPA GOTHICA. THE HEBREW 

 CHAKACTEE. 



(Plate VII., Fig. 6.) 



This species is very common, and generally distributed 

 throughout the country. 



The expansion of the wings is about lj inch. The 

 fore- wings are greyish-purple, sometimes very dark, 

 sometimes pale ; a little above the centre of the wing is 

 a conspicuous black mark, something like a figure 7 or 

 a prostrate L ; technically speaking, it extends under 

 the orbicular stigma, and then fills up the space between 

 that and the reriiform stigma ; obliquely beyond it is a 

 short black streak on the fold. 



The larva is green, irrorated with yellowish dots ; the 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines are yellowish, and the spira- 

 cular line white ; it feeds in June on various plants. 



The perfect insect appears towards the end of March 

 and beginning of April ; it frequents the flowering 

 sallow bushes at dusk, and may sometimes be collected 

 in great plenty ; it also comes to light. 



