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The caterpillar is at first yellowish-broTO, but 
afterwards becomes green, with two longitudinal 
stripes of lemon-yellow on each side, a brown dorsal 
band and numerous fine black lines across the back. 
The anterior legs are yellow, the membranous ones 
of a whitish colour, and the stigmata yellow sur- 
rounded by a black ring. The caudal horn is like- 
wise black. On the continent, in several parts of 
which it is a common insect, it feeds chiefly on the 
(Pinus pinaster). In this country it is 
said to frequent the spruce and Scotch fir. The 
moth is very rare in Britain, Colney Hatch "Wood 
and the neighbourhood of Esher being probably 
the only localities in which it has been observed. 
It certainly was never taken in Ravelston Wood, 
near Edinburgh, by Mr. Wilson of the College, as 
intimated by Dr. Leach, and it is probably through 
some inadvertence that he states it to have beeji 
taken there by himself. 
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