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Male: fore wings clear grey-brown, with a large black 
rounded eye, with rings of dull pink and blue, a little 
above the middle, set in a white oblong patch, most 
visible on the inner side; there is a pink mark near the 
outer corner, and two waved streaks of pale-pink across. 
Hind wings dull but clear orange-red, with an eye in 
the middle of black, with rims of dull pink and blue, 
and a grey-brown border bounding a streak of greyish 
blue round the outer margin. There is a white collar 
on the neck. 
Female: fore wings grey,marked similarly to the male. 
Hind wings grey, also with markings much the same. 
Localities for this species, which is extensively distri¬ 
buted, are Linwood near Market-Rasen, Langwith near 
York, Thorne Moor near Doncaster, Canterbury, Adding¬ 
ton, Bisterne, Winchester, Ripon, Lancaster, Manchester, 
Carlisle, Dunoon, Killarney. 
The situations where it is found are heathy commons, 
&c. 
The perfect insect appears in May. 
The caterpillar, which is handsome and conspicuous, is 
green, with velvet-black bands and seven raised spots of 
golden-yellow, surrounded by a rim of black, and tufted 
with thin black hairs. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the heath (Calluna vulgaris ), the bramble, 
the willow, the apple, &c. 
