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The caterpillar is black, and covered with snort hairs, 
with a broad stripe of pale yellow along the back, and 
another interrupted one on each side. 
The caterpillar is found in August, and thence to May. 
It feeds on the nettle, the willow, the ash, &c. 
This species is subject to considerable variety, not 
only as to size, but also in the markings and the ground 
colour of the hind wings. In some specimens the red 
is almost wholly superseded. 
CALIMORPHA HERA. 
Plate X. Figure 7. 
This insect measures from three inches and a half 
to three inches and three quarters in expanse. 
Male: fore wings very dark deep green, curiously 
streaked and marked with cream-white, viz. a narrow 
line along the lower margin from the inner corner, from 
which also a short slender curved streak proceeds. Two 
large ones descend from the upper margin, with two 
very short marks between them respectively, the outer 
of the two former ones forming an angular junction with 
another which follows within the outer margin and the 
upper part, but meets the edge of the lower, skirted 
with a row of small spots. Hind wings full rich scarlet 
red, with two large patches and with two small dots, 
forming part of a supposititious line or band within the 
outer margin, and a large spot of the same above the 
centre. 
Localities for this species are Newhaven in Sussex, 
where one was captured by a little girl near the end of 
the main street; Brighton, where one was seen by Mr. 
Cook, of that town; and Wrexham, from whence a 
