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ANARTA MYRTILLI. 
BEAUTIFUL YELLOW-UNDERWING. 
Plate LXYII. Figure 9. 
Localities for this species are Bromsgrove Lickey, Lang- 
with, Buttercrambe Moor, Allerthorpe and Stockton Com¬ 
mon near York, Wavendon, Huddersfield, Lin wood near 
Market Rasen, Falmouth, Carlisle, Edinburgh, Black 
Park, Dunoon, Stirling, Bowdon, Lewes, Darlington, 
Chat Moss, Tenterden, Ripon, Scarborough, Birkenhead, 
Preston, Shrewsbury, Manchester, Perry Wood near 
Faversham, Lyndhurst. 
The situations where it is found are heaths and heathy 
places. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
The caterpillar is of a beautiful green colour, with 
darker lines crossed by a series of yellowish white blots ; 
the spots white. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
September and October. 
It feeds on the heath (Calluna vulgaris). 
The chrysalis is found enclosed in a cocoon of silk 
mixed with earth. 
This species also flies in the sunshine. It is extremely 
rapid on the wing. 
IIELIODES ARBUTI. 
SMALL YELLOW-UNDERWING. 
Plate LXYII. Figure 10. 
Localities for this species are York, at Stockton Common, 
