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Bromsgrove, Worcester, Scarborough, Leicester, Lewes, 
Huddersfield, Hal ton, Winchester, Birkenhead, Brighton, 
Falmouth, Arundel, Maidstone, Ripon, Wakefield, Bristol, 
Lancaster, Ben Nevis, Burton-on-Trent,Darlington, Cam¬ 
bridge, Dorchester, Lower Guiting, Epping, Wavendon, 
Exeter, Stowmarket, Teignmouth, Preston. 
The situations where it is found are by hedges in lanes. 
The perfect insect appears in February and March. 
The caterpillar is bluish-black, with transverse rows of 
three spots on each segment, a yellowish-white line on 
each side above the feet, and two rows of yellowish-red 
raised spots on the back. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in May 
and June. They reside together in large companies 
under a common web, from which they go out to feed 
at night. They should be taken with the web to be 
reared easily and successfully. 
The caterpillar feeds on the whitethorn, the blackthorn, 
&c. It not unfrequently remains till the second year, or 
even longer, in the chrysalis state. 
BOMBYX NEUSTKIA. 
LACKEY. 
Plate XIII. Figure 6. 
This insect measures from a little under one inch and 
a quarter to rather more than one inch and a half in 
width. 
Male: fore wings pale yellowish-red, more or less dark 
or light, with a cross bar, narrowed in the middle, of a- 
darker colour, bordered with dark lines more or less 
