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Male : fore wings orange, finely streaked all over with 
small brown lines. Hind wings orange speckled with 
brown. The antennse are pectinated. 
Female: fore wings pale orange yellow. 
Localities for this species are York, Edlinton Wood 
near Doncaster, Stowmarket, Pembury, Black Park, 
Plymouth, Lymington, Lewes, Barnstaple, Worthington, 
Tenterden, Plumstead, Horndean, Exeter, West Looe, 
Brighton, Bristol. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
The caterpillar is variable, brown, yellowish-brown, or 
buff, with paler markings, with two small points at the 
tail, and a double hump on the fifth, ninth, and twelfth 
segments, the last the smallest. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
October, April, and May. 
It feeds on the plum, &c. 
MKTROCAMPA MARGARITARIA. 
LIGHT EMERALD. 
Plate XVII. Figure 8. 
This insect measures from under an inch and a half 
to nearly two inches in expanse. 
Male : fore wings pale green, first line white, second 
line also white, edged with a darker shade of olive-green 
on its inside edge. There is a small reddish-brown speck 
on the outer corner. Hind w T ings pale green, crossed by 
a white line edged with a darker shade of olive-green 
on its inside edge. 
