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bearing a thick black wedge-mark above it, on the 

 front of each segment ; these marks are remarkably 

 thick, beginning on the fifth and ending on the twelfth 

 segment, where their outer sides are decidedly concave ; 

 a diamond shape of dark purplish-brown is in the 

 centre of the back of each segment ; its anterior 

 portion, as far as the ends of the black wedges, is of a 

 still deeper purplish-brown ; a flue streak of white at 

 its beginning from the outer end of the black wedge- 

 shape flows round its base, and slants obliquely in- 

 wards, rapidly melting into the ground colour. The 

 space from the subdorsal line to the spiracles is 

 purplish-brown, its upper half the darkest ; from 

 thence at the beginning of the lower half at the front 

 of each segment is a blackish oblique streak slanting 

 backwards to the black spiracle. The subspiracular 

 stripe is of yellowish-grey tinged with brownish along 

 its middle, its edges yellowish -white ; an inflated semi- 

 circular pale greyish spot is below its lower edge in 

 front. The belly and pro-legs brownish-grey. The 

 head dark shining brown ; all the other parts of the 

 back and sides are velvety. The plate of very dark 

 brown on the second segment is also velvety. The 

 thoracic segments are darker than the others. The 

 tubercular dots on the back show white for the first 

 pair, often situate on the black wedges ; the hinder 

 pair are inconspicuous immediately behind their broad 

 ends. 



Their food is chiefly dock and bramble. The first 

 moth, a female, appeared on the 5th of December ; 

 the inner half from base and also the subterminal 

 borders of a bright bluish-grey, the rest rich chestnut- 

 brown. (W. B., 1870, Note Book I, 24, 38, 62.) 



