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line also brown,curved,and indented; third line yellowish 
white; central shade brown. Hind wings dull yellowish, 
crossed with three bands of dark brown, which also 
borders the margin. 
Female: fore wings whitish, mottled with grey. Hind 
wings whitish, mottled with grey. 
Localities for this common species are Stockton Com¬ 
mon near York, Scarborough, Anstey, West Looe, Butter- 
crambe Moor, Black Park, Stowmarket, Perry Wood near 
Faversham, Exeter, Pembury, Worthing, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, Lyndhurst, Glasgow, Manchester, Lewes, Brighton, 
Edinburgh, Cambridge, Barnstaple, Halton, Huddersfield, 
Newnham, Simonswood near Liverpool. 
The perfect insect appears in May and June. 
The caterpillar is reddish-brown mottled with black, 
and with a pale line on the sides. It varies much. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
June and September. 
It feeds on the black knapweed (Gentaurea nigra), 
and the bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus ). 
The chrysalis occurs underneath the ground. 
This moth flies in the day-time. 
FIDONIA PINIARIA. 
BORDERED WHITE. 
Plate XXVI. Figure 6. 
This insect measures an inch and a quarter or a little 
over in width. 
Male: fore wings white, or yellowish-white on the 
middle part, with a broad line along it diverging into two 
