Farnboro John
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I've been puzzling over this for a little bit as I think I might have seen the odd thing like this myself and written it off as a Dark Arches. I followed Andy's suggestion of Nutmeg to Google and thought I found a decent match, only to find the title says something different?
https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=nutmeg+moth#id=_
Second row. Lefthand most picture.
Looks good to me too. In particular the little black circumflex marks on the trailing edge of the forewing look right in shape and position, which they don't on normal Nutmeg - and Large Nutmeg is a Plate 57 moth I was considering.
Still open to argument but that goes in at least in pencil. Cheers mate. (Thanks to Andy too for the contribution!)
I have corrections, too: both the recent Emeralds were actually Light Emerald, given away by the red dots at the wingtips. Oops. Lucky I looked at them again: I knew something was bothering me about them. Light Emerald of course is the unrelated one on a different plate in the guide.
John