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ENNOMIDiE. 
EPIONE VESPERTARIA. 
Plate XVII. Figure 2. 
This insect measures an inch or a little over in expanse. 
Male : fore wings orange, with numerous short trans¬ 
verse lines and marks of a darker shade, a small speck 
near the middle of similar colour, the first line much 
curved, and a wide border on the outer margin of purple- 
red, waved on its inner side. Hind wings orange, also 
streaked with a darker shade, and with a small central 
spot of the same, and a wide border on the outer margin 
of purple-red. 
Female: fore wings pale whitish-yellow, with a minute 
dark dot in the centre ; the first line red, and the border 
at the outer margin. Hind wings pale whitish-yellow, 
the first line, which is much curved, faded red, a small 
dark speck near the centre; and a wide border of the same 
on the outer margin embayed on its inner side. 
Localities for this species are near Stockton Station 
and Stockton Common near York, and Lyndhurst in 
the New Forest. 
The situations where it is found are heathy places, 
the moth chiefly addicting itself to the dwarf sallow. 
The perfect insect appears in July and August. 
The caterpillar is brown, with a whitish patch on the 
sixth segment, and yellow diamond-shaped spots on the 
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, as also a 
narrow white line on each side of the back as far as 
the sixth. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in June. 
It feeds on the nut-tree. 
