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Localities for this species are Faversham, Worthing, 
Pembury, Halton, Brighton, Birch Wood, Worcester, 
Bowness, Wavendon, Stowmarket, Dursley, Black Park, 
Lyndhurst, Barnstaple. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears the beginning of May, and 
in June and July. 
The caterpillar is reddish-grey, with several black lines 
along it, and two small prominences on the twelfth 
segment. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
September. 
It feeds on the beech. 
The chrysalis is found among moss. 
TEPHROSIA CREPUSCULARIA. 
SMALL ENGRAILED. 
Plate XXI. Figure 2. 
This insect, which is very variable, some being much 
darker and smaller than others, measures from a little 
under an inch and a half to nearly one inch and three 
quarters in width. 
Male: fore wings pale greyish,more or less tinged with 
a dull yellowish tint and freckled with brownish: the first 
line brown, sometimes only traceable by three brown or 
blackish-brown spots; the second line black, slightly 
waved, and slanting inwards to rather within the middle 
of the lower margin ; third line blackish-brown, waved 
