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near the outer corner, and a long one within it. Hind 
wings dull orange-yellow, from the inner corner two 
black streaks, the upper one bent upwards to the margin, 
and the outer margin with black spots, one on and the 
other within it, and an edge of the same along the 
upper part of the outer margin, and also at the lower 
corners. The thorax is black, striped with buff, the 
body brown-black, with buff on the sides. 
Female : fore wings with less black than the male, but 
otherwise similarly marked. Hind wings with the space 
between the streaks from the inner corner filled up with 
black. The female is rather smaller than the male. 
Localities for this species are Sandal Beat near Don¬ 
caster, Melbourne near Pocklington, York, Manchester, 
Falmouth, West Wickham, Worthing, Winchester, 
Brighton, Blean Wood near Canterbury, Black Park, 
Scarborough, Lower Guiting, Dovedale, Worcester, 
Birmingham, Stow Wood, Bromsgrove, Newmarket, 
Sudbury, Halton, Dursley, Peterborough, Mansfield, 
Gloucester, Durham, Chat-Moss, Preston, Huddersfield, 
Lewes, Perth, Teignmouth, Castle Eden, Carlisle, and the 
Pentland Hills. 
The situations where it is found are open places in 
and adjoining woods. 
The perfect insect appears at the end of May, and 
the beginning of June. 
The caterpillar is dull brown, with long black hairs on 
the second, third, fourth, eleventh, twelfth,and thirteenth 
segments, and reddish-brown on the alternate ones. 
The caterpillar is to be looked for in May, living 
on through the winter, to the month of September. 
It feeds on the plantain (Plantcigo lanceolata). 
This species is subject to considerable variety, both 
in colour and markings. 
