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a similar bar. Hindwings grey, discal spot and subterminal 

 suffusion darker. 



Britain to Ross, N. and E. Ireland, common ; C. Europe ; 

 9, 10. Larva pale greenish -ochreous, freckled with black, 

 forming dorsal series of diamonds ; dorsal line pale, interrupted, 

 black-edged; spiracular pale, blackish-edged above: on oak; 

 4-6. The larva rests by day on the oak-trunks, whose colouring 

 it mimics. 



14. P. chi, L. 31-37 mm. Forewings white sprinkled with 

 pale brownish ; lines waved-dentate, edged with light brownish ; 

 orbicular and reniform outlined with brownish ; claviform semi- 

 oval, posteriorly outlined with black, more or less connected 

 with a black mark on anterior edge of second line ; sometimes 

 some black wedge-shaped marks before subterminal line. Hind- 

 wings in ( white; in <j? fuscous -whitish, with two posterior 

 fuscous shades. 



Britain to Sutherland, Ireland, common, scarce in south; 

 N. and C. Europe, NW. Asia ; 7-9. Larva pale green ; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines whitish ; spiracular broad, white, edged 

 above with suffused dark green : on hawthorn, Rumex, Sonchus, 

 etc. ; 4, 5. 



15. P. flavicincta, F. 37 -44 mm. Forewings very pale 

 greyish-ochreous, mixed with grey and whitish, and irregularly 

 marked with pale orange, especially on edges of spots and sub- 

 terminal line ; spots and lines obscurely margined with grey, 

 median shade grey. Hindwings grey-whitish, postmedian and 

 subterminal shades grey. 



England, E. Ireland, common; C. (except EC.) and SW. 

 Europe ; 8, 9. Larva pale green ; dorsal line darker ; spiracular 

 white, sometimes black-edged above : on birch, Rumex, Stellaria, 

 etc.; 5-7. 



16. P. xanthomista, Hb. (nic/rocincta, Tr.) 36-40 mm. 

 Forewings pale grey, mixed with blackish and whitish, median 

 area suffusedly darker ; a short median basal streak, vein 1 b, 

 edges of spots and subterminal line marked with orange-yellow. 

 Hindwings in < white, in <j? uniform rather dark grey. 



Cornwall, Devon, Isle of Man, local ; C. (except EC.) Europe ; 

 8, 9. Larva brownish -ochreous, posteriorly orange-tinged ; 

 dorsal and spiracular lines pale ; head pale brown : on Silene, 

 Statice, Plantago, etc.; 6, 7. 



3. D AS Y FOLIA, Gn. 



Head densely rough-haired ; eyes glabrous, ciliated. Tongue 



