ii6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



On the wiujr from tlie end of June till Ausrust. 



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Larva liavitig a wrinkled appearance, the body minutely 

 studded with yellow tubercles and very short hairs ; ground 

 colour pale canary-yellow ; dorsal line pale brown ; down the 

 middle of the back is a chain of large deep rich brown tooth- 

 shaped spots, united at the points, and bordered on either 

 side by an almost black subdorsal line, these dorsal spots 

 becoming faint and confluent with the dorsal line on the 

 anterior and posterior segments, almost obliterated on the 

 latter ; below the subdorsal lines is a narrow rich brown 

 line, and a row of oblique stripes of the same colour ; 

 spiracular line yellowish ; undersurface suffused on either 

 side with brown, and having a central line of the same colour 

 running the whole length. 



Or — Ground colour grass or yellowish-green ; dorsal spots 

 brown, perfectly lozenge-shaped, ceasing on the posterior 

 segments ; subdorsal lines deeper brown than the dorsal 

 spots, interrupted at the segmental divisions ; spiracular line 

 yellowish, bordered on the lower side with brown. 



Or — Ground colour various shades of green ; all the mark- 

 ings except the subdorsal lines faint or altogether wanting. 



Or — Whole body, with the exception of the dorsal portion 

 of the posterior segments, suffused with deep rich chocolate- 

 brown ; remainder canary-j'ellow wil h a pale brown dorsal 

 line ; on the back of every other segment are two yellow 

 spots ; on each side two waved j-ellow lines enclosing a brown 

 line. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



September and October on the flowers of Solidago virgaurea 

 (golden rod), but in confiuement content to eat blossoms of 

 various specier, of Michaelmas daisy. Usually to be found 

 on the scattered plants of golden-rod growing in open woods, 

 often but a single larva upon each plant. 



Pupa ratlier large and thick, the thorax and abdomen 

 yellow, the latter deeply suffused with blood-red ; wing-cases 



