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a red line along the back, and a narrow one on each side 
above the legs, which are red ; head also red; the tail red 
its tip black. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is from the 
middle of August to the middle of September. It some¬ 
times remains in chrysalis for two years. 
The caterpillar feeds on the sea spurge {Euphorbia 
paralias), and the cypress-leaved spurge {Euphorbia 
cyparissias ). 
DEILEPHILA GALII. 
SCARCE-SPOTTED HAWK-MOTII. MADDER HAWK-MOTH. 
Plate III. Figure 2. 
This insect measures from two and a half to three inches 
in the expanse of the wings. Male : front wings fine clear 
olive green, the lower margin paler, and a yellowish white 
streak from below the base to the tip, indented along its 
upper edge. Hind wings black at the base, white at the 
lower corner, succeeded by a pale red patch, fading out¬ 
wards into pale yellowish or reddish white, with a clear 
black line following the lower edge. 
Localities for this species are Warwick, Gogmagog, 
Cambridge, Askham Bryan, Woolwich, Darenth Wood, 
Kingston, Arundel, Bridgewater, Taunton, Stowmarket, 
Worcester, Rugeley, Dunkirk, Darlington, Aylesbury, 
Gainsborough, Leckhampton, Bungay, Tunbridge Wells, 
Wallasey, Macclesfield, Hull, Hedderwick Hill near 
Dunbar, York, Clevedon, Tunbridge, Felixstowe, Cra- 
mond, Wheaton, Twizel, Manchester, Plymouth, Bristol, 
Lewes, Thurning, Huddersfield, Birkenhead, Epping, 
Deal, Exeter, on the Dyke Road near Brighton, Dover, 
Faversham, Rainham, Whitefield near Bury, Stamford 
Hill, Hackney, and other places near London. 
The dates of the appearance of the perfect insect are 
from the beginning of July to the middle of August, and 
even in September and October—July 4, 5, 26, August 11. 
