108 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



each other, I might yet have passed it over, as I have hitherto the 

 only specimen which was phiced in my cabinet, as a mere wasted 

 variety of the followinir insect. In Mr. Vigors' collection is also a 

 specimen taken in a different locality. 



Sp. 3. Trifolii. Alia anticis cyaneis maculis quinquc ruhris, duabus mediis scepe 

 coadunatis, suhtus concolorilms; posticis ruhris, margine latiori cyaneo. (Exp. 

 alar. 11 lin. — 1 unc. 2—3 Kn.) 



Sp, Trifolii. Esper.—An. Trifolii. Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings deep greenish-blue, with two distinct red spots at the base, two 

 others placed obliquely on the disc, the anterior smallest, and a single round 

 one towards the apex, near the costa : posterior wings deep red, with a very 

 broad, slightly waved deep bluish-black marginal fascia. 



Var. B. With the two oblique discoidal spots on the anterior wings confluent. 



Var. y. As in var. |S, but the discoidal spots united by a narrow Une with the 

 one at the apex. 



Var. ?. The basal and discoidal spots confluent, and united by a streak of red. 



Var. s. All the spots longitudinally confluent, forming a broad irregular flame- 

 like blotch. 



Caterpillar dusky-yellow, with four rows of black spots ; two on the back, and 

 two on each side : it feeds on Trefoil. Chrysahs black. 



Found abundantly in several parts of the country, towards the 

 end of May, or beginning of June, particularly in Devonshire, and 

 near Brockenhurst, in the New-forest ; also in a field near High- 

 gate, and at Colney-hatch : it has generally been considered, by 

 English collectors, as the Zy. Loti of Fabricius, but that insect Is 

 considerably larger, and is subsequently noticed. " Horningsea-fen, 

 near Caml^ridge.'" — Professor Henslow. " Common near New- 

 castle." — G. Wuiles, Esq.: this informatioii furnished on the know- 

 ledge of one five-S]totted species alone; it is, therefoi'e, (]ou])tful to 

 which it strictly applies, as I have not seen a northern specimen. 



f Sp. 2. Scabiosffi. Alis anticis viridihus, macitlis oblongis approximatis sa7i- 



gitineis, posticis ruhris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. fi lin.) 

 Zy. scabiose. — Fahricius. — Haworth, 74. — An. Scabioste. Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings dusky-green, with three elongate narrow red streaks, two at the 

 base, and one towards the apex; posterior red, the raargiii dusky-blue: 

 antenna; slender, but slightly clavate, bhiish-blacl. : body dark-coloured. 



Said by Mr. Haworth to have ])een taken near London ]iy Captain Lindegren : I 

 have not seen an indigenous specimen, and as var. i of An. Trifolii has been 

 usually referred in this country to the Zy. Scabiosss of Fabricius, I suspect the 

 insect mentioned by Mr. Haworth may have been merely a variety of that 

 species. 



