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The situations where it is found are woods and gardens. 
The perfect insect appears in May and June. 
The caterpillar is variable in colour, brown more or less 
tinged with darker brown, yellowish, or green, with paler 
stripes and two whitish prominences on the ninth and 
twelfth segments. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the elm, the oak, the birch, the poplar, &c. 
The chrysalis is found under the ground. 
BOARMIDjE. 
HEMEROPHILA ABRUPT ARIA. 
BARK MOTH. WAVED UMBER. 
Plate XIX. Figure 10. 
This insect measures from a little under an inch and a 
half to a little over that measurement in width. 
Male : fore wings pale brownish-yellow, with a narrow 
reddish-brown streak along the upper edge, and a wide 
dark patch of the same within the outer margin, narrowing 
to the outer corner. Central spot black. Hind wings 
pale brownish-yellow with numerous slender streaks of 
reddish-brown and one wide bar of the same across, with 
a fainter one within it. The antennas are pectinated 
nearly to the tip. 
Localities for this species are York, Scarborough, San¬ 
dal Beat near Doncaster, Birkenhead, Tenterden, Lewes, 
