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The caterpillar is dull greyish yellow, with a broad 
black line along the back, and another along the lower 
part of the sides. Below the former is a row of ten 
pale dull yellow spots, with a large black centre to each, 
except the last. The tail is red. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is June 
and July—June 18. 
The caterpillar feeds on the yellow bed-straw (Galium 
verum) and the vine. 
CH^EROCAMPA CELERIO. 
SILVER-STRIPED HAWK-MOTH. SHARP-WINGED 
HAWKtMOTH. 
Plate IV. Figure 1. 
This handsome and scarce insect measures from two 
inches and three quarters to three, or a little over. Male: 
front wings pale greyish brown, with a darker shade, and 
near the middle there is a white spot with a dark centre. 
A dull yellowish slightly-waved band extends from the 
lower margin near the base to the tip, its inner sides 
verging to a white border. Hind wings rose colour, 
brighter towards and at the base, paler towards the margin, 
with a narrow-waved black band following the margin, and 
a rather wider one, but shorter, within it near the centre, 
the two connected by six fine black streaks or veins; the 
outer margin greyish. 
Localities for this species are York, Doncaster, Henley- 
on-Thames, Tenterden, Norwich, Chelmsford, Ledbury, 
Chichester, Worcester, Hull, Bolton, Beccles, Darlington, 
Newark, Weymouth, Hopetown, Tooting, Gainsborough, 
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, Tarrington near Ledbury, Hudders¬ 
field, Eltham, Stowmarket, Brighton, Brantinghamthorpe, 
Ely, Birkenhead, Lewes, Harleston, Wisbeach, Welton near 
Howden, South Walsham, Bristol, Seaford, Manchester, 
Worthing, Brampton near Carlisle, Leicester, Oxford, Great 
Baddow, Preston, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Wakefield, Mat- 
