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This fpecies has been fuppofed to feed on grafs in the larva ftate, 

 but as collectors have very rarely reared it from that ftate, it has 

 been difficult to determine its proper food. Fabricius mentions 

 lettuce and fcabious or devil's-bit. The larva is hairy, and in many 

 refpects very much refembles that of the Garden Tiger Moth, 

 from which we may perhaps infer that it is a general feeder. 



We found the larva in May ; fhortly after it fpun a web and 

 paffed into the pupa ftate, from which the moth was produced the 

 nth of June following. 



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