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catinc bands, and a browner band, intersected or clouded with 

 white, toward the hind margin. Body and legs grey-brown. 



Variable in the depth of colour of the oblique transverse 

 stripes of the fore wings, and in the presence or absence of a 

 round white spot in the discal cell. A rather striking form 

 of the first-named variation is that in which, the other stripes 

 being obscure, the two nearest the middle of the wing are 

 dark, placed near together, and so form a distinct and 

 pretty central band. This phase of variation seems to become 

 rather frequent in Scotland, I have it from Dumbai-tonshire. 

 In the north of Ireland, on the other hand, specimens are 

 found in which all the stripes are nearly or quite obsolete. 



On the wing from the end of April till June, and as a 

 partial second generation at the end of July and in August. 



Larva long and very slender, tapering toward the head ; 

 ground colour of head and body white or greenish-white, 

 with a chain of pear-shaped red dorsal spots, bordered on either 

 side by an interrupted line of the same colour, and becoming 

 confluent on the capital and anal segments ; sides spotted 

 with red ; a central red line runs the whole length of the 

 undersurface ; body clothed with a few very short hairs. 



A very pretty variety has the ground colour bright green, 

 with a series of tooth or pear-shaped white dorsal spots inter- 

 sected by a central horizontal dark green line, becoming 

 purple at the anal tip ; spiracular line white, broken ; back 

 sprinkled with a few short black hairs. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



Mr. Buckler further figures it greenish-white with the chain 

 A dorsal markings black, the subdorsal dashes crimson, and 

 the spiracular streaks black ; also with these dorsal markings 

 united by a dorsal dark line, and the colours of the lateral 

 markings reversed ; and deep green with the dorsal markings 

 black, the subdorsal lines greenish-yellow, and the spiracular 

 line broken up into white spots. A very variable and ex- 

 ceedingly pretty larva. 



August and September on Calhina vulgaris (Common 



