98 
VENILIA MACULARIA. 
SPOTTED YELLOW. 
Plate XVII. Figure 6. 
This insect measures an inch or a little over an inch 
in width. 
Male: fore wings yellow, spotted with greyish-brown 
in the tracks of the half line, first line, and second line, 
and also outside the latter. Hind wings yellow, and 
spotted with greyish-brown. 
Localities for this species are York, Darlington, Exeter, 
Huddersfield, Barnstaple, Blean Wood near Canterbury, 
Faversham, Lymington, Bristol, Alfred’s Well and the 
Ban Dan Woods near Bromsgrove, Plymouth, Lewes, 
West Looe, Stowmarket, Sudbury, Dorking, Newcastle- 
on-Tyne, Pembury, Tenterden, Brighton. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears in May, June, and July. 
The caterpillar is bluish-green with a dark line of the 
same along the back, and a whitish line on each side 
of it. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the nettle (Urtica urens ), and other 
common plants. 
ANGERONA PRUNARIA. 
ORANGE MOTH. 
Plate XVII. Figure 7. 
This fine insect measures from an inch and three 
quarters to nearly two inches across. 
