82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, but with black ou the adjacent nervures ; shaded 

 behind with smoky-grey, through which run two rippled 

 faint white lines ; central spot a black dot ; cilia shining 

 greyish-white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale smoky-grey ; 

 discal spot, one above it, and another beyond, on the costal 

 black ; subterminal line whitish but edged with darker smoke 

 colour ; some small whitish dashes point in from the hind 

 margin. Hind wings dusky white, with a strongly angu- 

 lated transverse smoky-grey stripe near the base, followed by 

 a faint duplicate ; central spot black ; opjiosite it on the 

 dorsal margin are one or two smoky-black spots, and toward 

 the hind margin two curved transverse smoky-grey stripes 

 most distinct upon the nervures ; hind margin shai'ply edged 

 with slender black streaks. Body and legs grey-brown. 



Not variable, excejit a little in size. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva long, rather slender and tapering toward the head - 

 green witli three purple dorsal lines, the middle one broad 

 and distinct, expanding considerabh* on the anal segment ; 

 the two side ones very indistinct ; spiracular lines and seg- 

 mental divisions pale j'ellow ; head and prolegs purple ; 

 undersurface green ; back studded with a few minute white 

 tubercles, interspersed with, here and there, a black one. 



Or — Uniform purple with two lines of a deeper shade on 

 each side of the back. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) Mr. Buckler has 

 figured a nearly uniform pale green variety with a purple 

 anal tip; and another, pale liurplish-brown, with a darker 

 dorsal line. 



August, September, and the early jDart of October, on 

 the flowers oi Pimpiiiella saxifraga a,uA P. magna, eating the 

 blossoms and the upper portion of the pedicels, and often 

 resting during the day stretched out on the remainder of a 

 pedicel so as to look quite like a continuation thereof. Said 

 also to feed occasionally on the flowers oi Angelica sylvestris, and 



