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they are of a uniform dull brown, which held in 

 different lights has a bronzy appearance. There are 

 two broods of this fly in the year, one coming out in 

 June, and the other in August or September ; and it 

 has been observed that the wings of the latter brood 

 are much less bright and various in colour than those of 

 the former. 



The Caterpillar, which feeds on the elm, willow, 

 honeysuckle, hop, nettle, and several other plants, is of 

 a reddish brown, rather thickly set with hairs, and 

 having a curious hairy projection on each side of the 

 head, which is nearly he&rt-shaped. The chrysalis is a 

 pale dirty brown, spotted with gold ; shaped much like 

 those previously described. 



This is by no means a common fly in this country, 

 that is generally speaking, for in some years it occurs in 

 great plenty. York, Worcester, Dorset, Warwick, 

 Suffolk, Gloucester, Herts, and Middlesex are the 

 English shires where it has been chiefly taken. Also 

 in Fifeshire, in Scotland, but in no other part of that 

 country, except, perhaps, some of the southern coun- 

 ties. 



A celebrated entomologist named Westwood, has 

 observed a great variety in the shape of the wings of 

 this insect, some not being nearly so deeply indented 

 as others ; so that there are Common Butterflies, the 

 outlines of whose wings present rather the form of a 



