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Localities for this species are York, Buttercrambe Moor, 
Brighton, Faversham, Worthing, Pembury, Lyndhurst, 
Bristol, Exeter, Tenterden, Worcester, Lewes, Black 
Park, Ipswich. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears in May and August. 
The caterpillar is green, yellowish-green, or brown, 
with a paler line on the sides; the head reddish. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in June 
and September. 
It feeds on the birch. 
The chrysalis is attached by a thread at the tail, and 
another girdling the body. 
ACIDALID2E. 
HYRIA AURORARIA. 
PURPLE AND GOLD. 
Plate XXII. Figure 13. 
This insect measures from a little under three quarters 
of an inch to about that width. 
Male: fore wings lilac-purple red with an orange patch 
in the centre, more or less extending to the inner corner; 
the first line is purple-red, in some specimens indistinct; 
second line purple-red, wide, and placed near the outer 
margin. Hind wings purple-red in the middle, with a 
yellow spot, orange-yellow about the inner corner .and 
along the outer and lower margin. 
