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The caterpillar is greenish-grey, with black stripes 
spotted with white and red; the head is dark brown 
with two white lines. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on lichens of different sorts. 
This species flies in the sunshine about the tops of the 
trees mentioned above, but is also to be taken perched 
on blades of grass. 
EULEPIA GRAMMICA. 
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This insect measures from an inch and a third to 
nearly an inch and a half in width. Male : fore wings 
yellowish-buff with a tinge of green rayed with black, 
and with a spot of the same a little beyond and above 
the middle. Hind wings yellowish tinged with orange, 
and with a rather broad border composed of a series 
of oblong spots, more or less run together in different 
specimens, and a crescent shaped spot near the centre. 
Localities for this species are Windsor and Anglesea. 
The perfect insect is said variously to appear in June 
and July, in September and October. 
The caterpillar is dark blackish-brown, with a yellow¬ 
ish-orange streak along the back, a white line on each 
side, and reddish spots, each the base of a tuft of hairs. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in May. 
It feeds on the fescue-grass (Festuca duriuscula 
heath (Calluna vulgaris), the hawkweed (Hieracium 
pilosella), mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), field southern¬ 
wood (Artemisia campestris) y and other plants. 
