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CUCULLIA LYCHNITIS. 
Plate LXYI. Figure 6. 
Localities for this very elegant species are Arundel, 
Horndean, Henley, Marlow. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
The caterpillar is pale dull yellowish white or greenish 
white, having on each segment a band of deep yellow, 
with two black spots in front and a curved black band 
behind; on the sides a row of black spots with another 
below each, and two other spots slantwise below these; 
the face yellow spotted with black. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the white mullein ( Verbascum lychnitis). 
The chrysalis is found below the earth enclosed in a 
large cocoon. 
CUCULLIA ASTERIS. 
STARWORT MOTH. 
Plate LXYI. Figure 7. 
Localities for this species are Brighton, Darenth Wood, 
Croydon, Fulham in Norfolk, Dulwich Wood,Canterbury, 
West Wickham Wood, Birch Wood, Lewes, Bere Forest. 
The situations where it is found are woods. 
The perfect insect appears at the end of May and in 
June. 
The caterpillar is bluish green or purplish with a 
yellow line edged with black along the back, and another 
of the like colour on each side of it; the side line white 
edged with black. 
