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with two oblique pale central ones, united anteriorly on the disc with each 

 other, and posteriorly with the lateral stripe : abdomen above greenish-brown • 

 the margins of the segments white on the sides ; the two first with deep black 

 spots : antennic white. 



The colour of the wings varies much ; in some specimens the rosy tint is remark- 

 ably vivid and powerful, in others it is somewhat obscure : the marginal fascia 

 on the posterior wings also varies, it is sometimes entire, at others deeply in- 

 dented on each side ; and occasionally very narrow or very broad. 



Caterpillar at first deep black; it afterwards becomes spotted with red; and in its 

 last skin it is black, with slightly elevated whitish points ; with the head, a 

 dorsal line, the base of the tail, a large spot upon each segment beneath the 

 stigmata, and the prolegs bright red ; each segment has also a large circular 

 creajn-coloured spot, and a lesser one near the stigmata ; the tip of the horn 

 and the true legs are black : it feeds upon various kinds of spurge ( Euphorhia). 

 The chrysahs is of a light ochraceous-brown, with the wing-sheaths rather 

 lengthened. 



Although this beautiful insect has been known to inhabit Eng- 

 land for a very long period, the present race of entomologists are 

 indebted to the exertions of my friend Mr. Raddon for the major 

 portion of the specimens which adorn their cabinets ; he having de- 

 tected the larva in some considerable aljundancc on the sea spurge, 

 Avhich grows in plenty on the extensive sand-hills in tlie neigh- 

 bourhood of Barnstaple, during his residence in that part of the 

 country : they are full-grown about the middle of September, when 

 they retire a little beneath the surface of the sand, and effect their 

 change into the pupa ; reappearing in their final state the following 

 year at the beginning of June. " Three caterpillars taken near 

 Coventry in 1827." — Mr. Mercer. 



Sp. 2. Galii. Plate 12. f. 2. — Alls anticis vircscentibus, vittd longitiidinali 

 albida, posticis nigris fascid palUd/i rubro nebulaHi, antennis fuscis apicc aliiis, 

 dorso albo punctata. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 10 lin. — 3 unc.) 



Sp. Galii. Hiihner.—T>e. Galii. Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings of an olive-brown, with a narrow longitudinal whitish vitta, ex- 

 tending obliquely from the inner base nearly to its apex, its hinder edge slightly 

 waved, the anterior a little irrcgiilar ; the hinder margin is bordered witli ashy- 

 brown, with cilia of the same colour; the base has a white spot witli an ad- 

 joining black one, bordered again with white, as in De. Euphorbite, and in the 

 centre of the disc is a small patch of elongate whitish hairs : the posterior 

 wings are black at the base, and have a fascia of the same colour near the 

 hinder margin, placed upon a pale or reddish ground, with deeper clouds of 

 the latter colour ; the fringe is pale : the head and diorax are ohve-brown, 

 margined laterally with white: the abdomen also olive-brown, with a dorsal 



