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MELANIPPE UNANGULARIA. 
SHARP-ANGLED CARPET. 
Plate XXXII. Figure 5. 
Localities for this species are Brighton, Birkenhead, 
Barnstaple, West Looe, Preston, Exeter, Ipswich, Lewes, 
Pembury, Stowmarket, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
MELANIPPE RIVARIA. 
WOOD CARPET. 
Plate XXXII. Figure 6. 
Localities for this species are Brighton, Faversham, 
West Looe, Lewes, Worcester, Bristol, Preston, Ipswich, 
Barnstaple, Pembury, Manchester, Tenterden. 
The situations where it is found are chalky places. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is greenish-grey, the back greener, with 
a row of dark green lozenge-shaped spots, edged with 
white on the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth seg¬ 
ments ; the side line yellowish. 
The date of the aj^pearance of the caterpillar is in 
September. 
It feeds on the yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). 
The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon of earth. 
