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Undersides of all the wings silky, pale grey ; discal spot 

 of the fore wings black ; costa from the middle barred with 

 smoky-black, and transverse rows of small smoky-black 

 clouds lie along the hinder area. Hind wings prettily dotted 

 in successive transverse lines with smoky-black. Body and 

 legs OT-evish-brown. 



A single specimen of a smoky-black colour has been 

 obtained at Hartlepool by ]Mr. J. E. Robson ; otherwise it 

 scarcely varies at all. 



On the wing in -July. 



Larva. Tapers considerably towards the head ; whole 

 body rugose, studded with minute tubercles; head dusky 

 purple ; ground colour pinkish-grey ; dorsal line rusty, or 

 dull purplish-brown, connecting a series of well defined, top- 

 shaped, blotches of the same colour, dorsal blotches margined 

 by a number of white lateral stripes : each segment orna- 

 mented upon the sides with a large orange-red and dusky- 

 purple spot ; spiracular lines white ; back and sides more or 

 less suflused with orange ; undersurface purplish-grey, with 

 a central dusky purple line margined with white. (Rev. 

 H. H. Crewe.) 



August to October, on the flowers of Artemisia cainpedrh, 

 A. vulgaris (Mugwort). and A. ahaijnthium (Wormwood), 

 probably also on those of^l. rnnritima &nd. other species. 



Pi'PA. Thorax and wing-cases yellowish-green, base of 

 the latter almost yellow ; abdomen pale yellowish-red. In 

 a slight earthen cocoon. (H. H. C.) 



In this condition through the winter. 



As already explained, the species originally known in this 

 countrj-, under this name, proved to be distinct, and was 

 separated under the name of E. fraxinata. The existence of 

 the present species in these Islands became then problema- 

 tical, but in the year 1879 Mr. G. T. Porritt took upon the 

 sandhills at Skegness. Lincolnshire, two specimens, which 



