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the body is uniformly cylindrical, without 

 humps or warts* The colour of the head is 

 yellowish-green, with mottled black markings; 

 the body is yellowish or bright green, with 

 two black dorsal stripes scarcely so broad as 

 the green median space between them ; the 

 spiracles are black ; the legs and claspers pale 

 green ; all parts of the body emit fine short 

 scattered black hairs. It feeds on lady's 

 bedstraw (Galium verum), and is full-fed by 

 the end of August, when it spins a slight web 

 among the leaves or flowers, and changes to a 

 short obese CHRYSALIS, the wing-cases of which 

 are very ample, and of a dark brown colour; 

 the body is reddish. 



The MOTH flies in June. I have taken it in 

 Birchwood, Kent, and Mr. Brown has sent 

 me the caterpillar from Cambridgeshire, but 

 it is a very local insect in England, and I do 

 not hear of its occurrence in Scotland or 

 Ireland. (The scientific name is Anticlea 

 sinuata.) 



329. The Flame (Antidea\rubidata). 



329. THE FLAME. The fore wings have 

 a small triangular dark brown blotch at the 

 base, edged with white ; then a rust-coloured 

 band, then a dark brown bar delicately edged 

 on both sides with white, and having a dis- 

 tinct discoidal spot attached to its outer 

 margin, and this also is generally edged with 

 white ; then a brown-grey band, which some- 

 times bears a rust-coloured shade about the 

 middle, then a dark brown bar, very distinct 

 at the costa, but continued to the inner margin 

 only as a zigzag black line; and lastly a broad 

 rust-coloured marginal band, intersected by a 

 slender scalloped pale gray line : the hind 

 wings are grayish-brown with transverse 

 waved lines, both darker and lighter; the 

 head, thorax, and body are grayish-brown, 

 the body having a pale margin, and two 

 darker spots on each segment. 



The EGGS are laid at the end of June or 

 beginning of July, on the great hedge bed- 

 straw (Galium mollugo), and other species of 

 the same genus ; they are hatched in ten or 

 twelve days. 



The CATERPILLARS are full-fed in August, 

 and then rest in nearly a straight position. 

 The head is semi-porrect, of almost exactly 

 the same width as the body, and the body of 

 uniform thickness throughout and cylindrical. 

 The colour of the head is smoky-brown, with 

 a brown V-shaped mark on the face, pointed 

 backwards, and several black dots and hairs; 

 the body is red, brown, or gray, but in either 

 case beautifully variegated ; on the body is a 

 median series of five lozenge-shaped or arrow- 

 headed markings, each having a dark centre, 

 a pale disc, and a slightly darker margin ; 

 beyond and in continuation of these, and ex- 

 tending from the ninth segment to the anal 

 flap, is a medio-dorsal black stripe ; the entire 

 back may be described as having five longi- 

 tudinal stripes ; of these the medio-dorsal 

 passes through and partly comprises the arrow- 

 headed markings and the black stripe already 

 described ; the remaining stripes are some- 

 what sinuous, of a reddish brown colour, and 

 bordered on each side by black dots ; the legs 

 are paler, the claspers slightly darker. It 

 goes into the ground to change to a CHRYSALIS, 

 and forms a small earthen cocoon. 



The MOTH flies in June, and occurs in several 

 counties north, south, east, and west, but I 

 think neither in Scotland nor Ireland. (The 

 scientific name is Anticlea rubidata.) 



330. The Shoulder Stripe (Anticlea badiata). 



330. THE SHOULDER STRIPE. The fore 

 wings are sienna-brown, with the base and a 

 broad hind-marginal band umber-brown, and 

 a median band pale wainscot-brown ; 'this 



