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Localities for this species are Scarborough, Black Park, 
Wavendon, Dover, Manchester, the New Forest, Epping* 
Ramsgate, Halton, Lymington, Dorchester, Bristol, &c. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is blackish grey, with a double indented 
line of yellow, spotted with scarlet along each side of the 
back, and a black spot on the second, seventh, and last 
segments. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is from 
May to June. 
It feeds on the lichens which appertain to the oak, 
the beech, and other trees. 
LITHOSIA RUBRICOLLIS. 
Plate X. 
Figure 1. 
This insect measures from a little over an inch, to 
rather more than an inch and a quarter in width. Male : 
fore wings dull black. Hind wings also dull black. The 
tail is yellow; the thorax has a belt of orange yellow 
over it in front. 
Localities for this species are York, Londesborough, 
Guisborough, Swinhope, Cambridge, Canterbury, Durs- 
ley, Brighton, West Wickham, Blandford, Wavendon, 
Black Park, Epping, Exeter, Lewes, Box Hill, Bisterne, 
Barnstaple, Gloucester, Peterborough, Stowe Wood, Hal¬ 
ton, Lymington, Manchester, Thornhill, Dumfries, 
Dorking, Carlisle, Lower Guiting, Plymouth, Stowmar- 
ket, Winchester, Worthing, Lympstone. 
The situations where it is found are fir plantations. 
The perfect insect appears in June. 
