i8 Lloyd's natural history. 



side of the fore-wings the fulvous markings are extended to 

 cover much of the surface, and the hind-wings are yellowish- 

 brown, with large tawny spots towards the base, and four large 

 white spots on the middle of the wing (there is a smaller spot 

 between the two outer ones), and some smaller white spots 

 nearer the hind-margin. The larva is dark brown on the back, 

 with the sides paler, and there are two yellow longitudinal stripes. 

 The head is black, and there is an orange-coloured collar. It 

 feeds on Platitago major in September. The pupa is white, 

 with brown and buff lines ; a sharp spike between the eyes, 

 and another flat projection, spined at the end, at the other 

 extremity of the body, The larv?e hibernate in a silk-lined 

 tube in a rolled-up leaf. Hellius observed them leave the 

 cases, and attach themselves by the tail and a belt round the 

 body, but thought that if undisturbed, they might have turned 

 to pupse in the cases in which they had hibernated. This is a 

 point which requires further investigation. {^See Buckler's 

 *' Larvae," cited above.) 



SUB-FAMILY PAMPHILIN^. 



Section B. 



. AntenNvE very varied, but never hooked ; the club either 

 entirely without, or with, a crook of varying length. Palpi : third 

 joint of several genera long, slender, and curving over the vertex, 

 a character never found in the Hesperiincc ; in most of the 

 other genera the third joint is minute, only very rarely being 

 horizontally porrected, and when this is the case, it is always 

 stout. 



Fore-wing : Cell invariably less than two-thirds the length 

 of costa; vein 5 curves downwards at its base, and conse- 

 quently arises considerably nearer to 4 than to 6 ; the 

 middle disco-cellular considerably longer than the lower 



