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EMMELESIA ALCHEMILLARIA. 
SMALL RIVULET. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 2. 
This insect measures about three-quarters of an inch or 
a little over in width. 
Male : fore wings dull pale reddish-brown with a very 
faint tinge of green, crossed by several darker waved lines 
and with two small white marks on the lower margin. 
Third line waved and whitish ; central hand followed by 
a white waved line through which runs a slender line of 
grey. 
Localities for this species are York, Huddersfield, Scar¬ 
borough, Darlington, Faversham, Glasgow, Ardrossan, 
Lynton, Barnstaple, Cambridge, Lower Guiting, Lewes, 
WestLooe, Birkenhead, Edinburgh, Stowmarket, Preston, 
Brighton, Exeter, Manchester, Newnham, Charmouth, 
Bristol, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
The situations where it is found are lanes and woods. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
The caterpillar is dull yellowish grey, brown on the 
sides and between the segments. 
It feeds on the nettle (Urtica urens ) 
The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon of earth. 
