The caterpillar is purplish grey, marked with paler and darker; two warts on the back of rings 7-10, the middle pair the largest and most prominent. It feeds on ling, heath, broom, and the flowers of gorse or furze, and is best obtained in the spring after hibernation.
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| 2 Pl. 144. |
| 1, 2. | Grey Scalloped Bar. | 3. | Black-veined. | 4, 5. | Yellow Belle. |
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| 6. | Straw Belle. | 7, 8. | Grass Wave. |
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| 2 Pl. 145. |
| 1. | Transparent Burnet: caterpillar. |
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| 2, 2a. | Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet: caterpillar, chrysalis and cocoon. |
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| 3, 3a. | Five-spot Burnet: caterpillar and cocoon. |
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| 4. | Six-spot Burnet: caterpillar. | 5. | Forester: caterpillar. |
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The moth, which is out in June and July, occurs on most of the heaths and moors throughout England; apparently commoner and more generally distributed in the south than in the north; but it seems to be rare on the eastern side of the country altogether. From Cheshire it spreads into Flint and Denbigh, North Wales. In Scotland, it is found in Roxburgh (Bellion Moor), Clydesdale (local, but common), and northwards to Ross. It is found on the boggy heaths of Ireland, and Kane states that it is abundant where it occurs.
The range abroad extends to Scandinavia and eastward to Asia Minor.
ZYGÆNIDÆ.
The moths belonging to this family are popularly known in Britain as Burnets and Foresters. Of the former seven kinds occur in the British Isles, and of the latter there are only three species.