72 The Butterflies and Moths of Teneriffe. 



the stripes in the male. The head is dark red, shading off 

 to lighter red on the richly-feathered body. The antennae 

 are red, being thicker and more feathered in the male than 

 the female. The caterpillars are brown, thickly covered 

 with long silky hairs, and are found mostly in barrancos, 

 feeding on the dock and sorrel singly. They are also 

 found in gardens, feeding somewhat indiscriminately on ■ 

 cabbage or hollyhock. When kept in captivity they can 

 be reared on cabbage, and after attaining their full size 

 of about one and a half inches, they make a slight hairy 

 cocoon under a thin covering of earth. The caterpillar 

 stage lasts about twenty days. They are found in 

 January and hibernate in the pupa state till well on in 

 the summer, sometimes as late as October or November, 

 though some taken in January were brought to England 

 and turned to moths on the 24th of June following. 

 After being kept for a time the chrysalides become a 

 very dark brown, almost black, so that there is a temp- 

 tation to throw them away as dead, since they show 

 so little life ; but on opening the hard, stick-like skin, 

 the creature is found to be quite fresh. 



