177 
MAC ARIA NOTARIA. 
PEACOCK. 
Plate XXV. Figure 9. 
This insect measures from a little over an inch to an 
inch and a quarter across. 
Male: fore wings of a whitish colour, with four chesnut 
red marks on the upper margin. The first line is grey 
but indistinct; second line grey hut indistinct, with a 
conspicuous black spot in the middle of it, divided 
by three yellow lines, and beyond it adjoining the 
upper margin, a tawny blot or patch ; third line also grey 
and indistinct, forming a band; central line grey but 
indistinct. Hind wings crossed by a rather broad streak, 
and another narrow one within it, towards the inner 
corner; central spot black. 
Localities for this species are Exeter, Darenth Wood, 
Worthing, Tenterden, West Wickham, Brighton, Faver- 
sham, Plymouth, Pembury, West Looe, Newnham, Lynd- 
hurst, Killarney. 
The caterpillar is dark green on the upper part, with a 
row of yellowish-brown spots along the back; the sides 
yellowish-brown. 
It feeds on the sallow. 
The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon on the ground. 
VOL. I. 
N 
