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Male: fore wings dull olive-green, with a blot of a 
darker shade edged with whitish at the inner corner; 
central hand darker olive-green edged with whitish ; cen¬ 
tral spot blackish, in some specimens surrounded by a 
pale mark. 
Localities for this species are Edinburgh, Halton, 
Rannoch, Dunoon, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Keswick, Glas¬ 
gow, Preston, Darlington, Yentnor, Chatsworth, Exeter, 
Barnstaple, Bristol, Lyndhurst, Manchester, Malvern. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is dull brown. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
October and April. 
It feeds on the bedstraw ( Galium verum). 
LARENTIA PECTINITARIA. 
AUTUMN GREEN CARPET. 
Plate XXVIII. Figure 12. 
This insect measures from a little over an inch to one 
and a quarter in expanse. 
Male: fore wings pale green, half line black, narrowing 
from the upper margin. The first line is black, broadest 
at the upper margin, and edged with whitish; second 
line also black, broadest at the upper margin, and edged 
with whitish; there is a blackish mark near the outer 
corner; central shade greyish-green ; central spot grey 
but rather indistinct. Hind wings dull pale greenish- 
yellow, with two pale brown waved and curved lines 
