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Localities for this species are Fairbrook near Faversham, 
Halton,Blandford, Leicester, Winchester, Worthing, Naf- 
ferton, where I took one myself in the vicarage garden ; 
Canterbury, Dorking, Newliaven, Ramsgate, Southport, 
Exeter, Kingsbury, Stowmarket, Bisterne, Birkenhead, 
Sudbury, Reading, Lewes, Cambridge, Epping, Tenterden. 
The perfect insect appears the end of July and be¬ 
ginning of August. 
The caterpillar is whitish, with a black line interrupted 
with red on each side of the back, the sides bluish-white 
dotted with black, and with a row of red spots. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
May and June. 
It feeds on the poplar and the willow. 
LIPARIS DISPAR, 
GIPSY. 
Plate XII. Figure 1. 
This insect measures from rather above one inch and 
a half to two inches and a half, or even three inches 
across, in some specimens. 
Male: fore wings dark brown mingled with dull yellow¬ 
ish, with rather darker blackish-brown waved lines and 
bars across. Hind wings blackish-brown, mingled with 
dull yellowish, darker round the margin. 
Female : fore wings greyish white, with the rudiments 
of two or three bars from the upper and lower margins, 
a brownish-black spot a little way within the former 
towards the centre, and a brownish-black mark in the 
shape of a <3 beyond it, and a dot of the same near 
the inner corner. Hind wings greyish-white. 
