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fine salmon-red, crossed by a narrow waved black line, 
which is followed by a row of black dots. Hind wiugs 
pale salmon-red. 
Localities for this species are Crompton’s Coppice 
near York, Sandal Beat near Doncaster, Scarborough, 
Worthing, Blandford, Lewes, Epping, Plymouth, Selling, 
and Blean Wood near Canterbury, Perry Wood near 
Faversham, Sevenoaks, Henfield, Dorking, Ipswich, &c. 
The situations where it is found are woods, chiefly 
of young growth. 
The date of the appearance of the perfect insect is 
in July. 
The caterpillar is dull greyish brown, covered with 
long greyish black hairs; the head reddish brown, 
orange-yellow in front. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
May and June. 
The caterpillar feeds on lichens, and the oak, beech, 
and birch. 
This is a local species, but not very rare. It is best 
taken by shaking the trees in which it rests in the 
day-time. 
LITHOSIA MESOMELLA. 
Plate IX. Figure 5. 
This insect measures from under an inch to nearly 
an inch and a quarter in expanse. Male: front wings 
dull but glossy whitish, with a black dot on the upper 
edge beyond the middle, and another nearly opposite 
to it near the lower edge ; the upper edge and the outer 
edge yellowish orange. Hind wings greyish dusky, paler 
towards the base, the fringe yellowish orange; sometimes 
running up more or less in a streak into the wing. 
