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Localities for this species are Stockton and other places 
near York, Ipswich, Dorking, Exeter, Brighton, the Isle 
of Wight, Cambridge, Birkenhead, Kingsbury, Lynton, 
Bristol, Lyndhurst, Worthing, Pembury, Darlington, 
West Looe, Manchester, Luss, Barnstaple. 
The situations where it is found are heaths and 
commons. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is rather dark green, with a darker line 
along the back, a paler one below it, and one on the 
sides of a pale pink colour. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in-June. 
It feeds on the broom (Genista tinctoria and Genista 
anglica ). 
The chrysalis is surrounded with a web placed among 
leaves. 
GEOMETRA PAPILIONARIA. 
LARGE EMERALD. 
Plate XXI. Figure 11. 
This very fine insect measures from a little under two 
inches to more than two and a quarter across. 
Male : fore wings green; the first line which is waved 
is whitish but indistinct; second line also whitish, in¬ 
dented, and curved, but not extending to the upper 
margiu; third line indicated by a very faint row of white 
spots. Hind wings green, crossed with a dotted whitish 
Lne, followed by another of dots of the same colour. 
The antennae are slightly pectinated. 
