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merit. Ground-colour yellowish green, with a broadish 

 violet dorsal stripe from the third to thirteenth segments 

 inclusive ; numerous short pale grey hairs arranged in 

 four lines along the dorsal and lateral areas, hut no 

 perceptible warts. Spiracles dark hrown." R. S. 



Mimsseoptilus pterodactylus, L. 



fitscus, Retz. 

 (Plate 17. fig. 7.) 



Loc. Glasgow, Perthshire, Ayrshire, Ardrossan, 

 Exeter, Boroughhridge, Bramham, Doncaster, York, 

 Norwich, Merton, Cawston, St. Faith's, Wallasey, Col- 

 chester, Hastings, Suffolk, Folkestone, Southend, Pem- 

 broke, riowth. 



This widely distributed species occurs in July and 

 September. 



The cinnamon-brown colour and somewhat larger 

 size sufficiently distinguish this species from bipuncti- 

 dadyla ; and from similar coloured forms of monodac- 

 tylus, its smaller size and narrower wings at once 

 separate it. 



The ground-colour of the larva is green; the seg- 

 mental divisions yellowish green ; head whitish green, 

 spotted with blackish ; mandibles brown ; dorsal line 

 dark olive-green ; subdorsal and spiracular lines whitish; 

 tubercles whitish, with tufts of hair ; legs scmitrans- 

 parent light green ; tbe prolegs spotted with brown ; 

 the abdominal legs tipped with black. 



The larva feeds on the flowers of Veronica chamadrys 

 and, according to Schmid, on Convolvulus arvensis. 



