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another immediately above it : sometimes the spot and 

 the dots are deep ochreous instead of white. 



The larva, which is one of those collectors should 

 carefully avoid, is of a dark blackish-brown, with three 

 white lines on the back of the second segment, and 

 some white spots on the sides below the spiracular line. 

 It feeds in May and June, on oak, beech, etc., and on all 

 sorts of larvae, so that it is a most disagreeable inmate 

 of a breeding cage. 



The perfect insect appears in October, and lives 

 through the winter, hybernated specimens being often 

 found in the spring; it comes freely to sugar, and 

 in autumn may be found sucking the flowers of the ivy, 

 and in spring the sallow-blossoms. 



FAMILY VIII. ORTHOSID.E. 



HOPOEINA CROCEAGO. THE ORANGE 

 UPPEE-WING. 



(Plate VIII., Fig. 1.) 



This elegant species seems widely distributed in the 

 south of England, occurring from Kent to Devonshire, 

 but it does not seem to extend its northern range beyond 

 Worcester. In Ireland it has been noticed in the county 

 of Wicklow. 



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

 fore -wings are pale orange, dotted with dark grey ; the 

 stigmata rather paler orange ; a sharply angulated trans- 

 verse grey line in the middle of the wing intersects the 

 reniform stigma ; the hind-wings are almost entirely 

 white, with a narrow central greyish band. 



The larva is dark-ochreous, tinged with orange, with 

 a row of darker V-shaped marks along the back. It 

 feeds on oak in May and June. 



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