394 LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE 



Body. The body coloration is very variable. In tlie majonty 

 of the examples examined, it is greyish, clouded with blackish; 

 sometimes it is purplish tinged and sometimes it is quite pale, 

 rhe texture of the skin is much finer than in -ponionarïa. 



The longitudnial stripes are very distnict and possess an edging 

 as black and almost as continuous as ni liirtana although, taking 

 the stripes as a whole, the pomonaria characters predominate ; that 

 is to say the average breadth of the stripes is just about equal 

 to that of the space between and not less, as in hiriana. As in 

 pomonaria, too, the medio-dorsal stripes are rather broad after 

 a transverse bar, and then narrow almost to a point toward the 

 end of a segment continuing narrow like this to the next bar, or, 

 in the case of the thoracic and last abdominal segments, to its 

 position. Behind and before a bar, the hlling in is orange yellow 

 but, at other points, it is purplish. The subdorsal stripe is broad 

 and regular, and the filling in is orange with but little trace of 

 purple. On the anterior portions of the segments, the supraspi- 

 racular stripe is fairly well marked, but after that, it is obscure 

 and broken. It may contain the yellow supraspiracular spot of 

 the fi.rst two instars. The stripes, with a distinctly purple filling 

 in, are clearer on the thoracic and last abdominal segments than 

 in pomonaria. 



The yellow transverse bars are very prominent and combine 

 the yellowness of those in hirtaria with the greater breadth of 

 pomonaria. 



Just before and after thèse bars, and at correspondmg points 

 on the segments without them, there is a blackish suffusion. 

 Before them, in wholly suffused examples, the gênerai suffusion 

 becomes more pronounced. The collar is bright yellow, inter- 

 rupted with black, and is like that of pomonaria, except for the 

 tendency of the colour to pass along the stripes. 



The large yellow spot on the spiracular line is very like that 

 in hirtaria, but we hâve présent a narrow black edged spiracular 

 line, filled in with yellow just as in pomonaria, under the spiracles. 

 The spiracular line although rather broad is much confused on 



