T24 LEPIDOPTERA. 



in the dorsal line on the anterior and posterior segments ; sides 

 suffused with dusky reddish-browu and traversed by slender 

 waved lines of the same colour ; head greenish, with black 

 markings ; nndersurface pale green ; body covered with 

 minute white tubercles and sprinkled with a few short white 

 hairs. The brown suffusion is sometimes wanting, leaving the 

 larva of an uniform bright green, with a single chain of 

 brown dorsal lozenges. 



When nearly ready to spin up it turns pink, but another 

 variety assumes a pink ground colour after the last moult ; 

 the back and nndersurface tinged with green ; the dorsal 

 line is then dark green bordered on each of the middle seg- 

 ments by a black dot ; and the divisions of the segments are 

 tinged with red. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



June and July, and a second generation in September and 

 October ; on black-currant in gardens, elsewhere on wild 

 hop {Humidws liqjulus). Sometimes also to be found on 

 red-currant. 



Pupa yellowish-green, in an earthen cocoon. (II. H. C.) 

 In this condition during the winter. 



The moth hides during the day in currant-bushes in 

 gardens and in hedges where the wild hop grows, and may 

 be beaten out by day or taken flying about the bushes in th& 

 evening. It also comes readily to light, and to the flowers 

 of ragwort at night. Still common in gardens in the out- 

 skirts of London, and other cities, apparently to be found in 

 suitable spots throughout England, and probably Wales,^ 

 since it is common in Glamoraranshire and Pembrokeshire. 

 In Scotland in the Sohvaj' district, and in gardens in Clydes- 

 dale and Edinburgh, at Aberdeen and in Perthshire and 

 Ross-shire. In Ireland in the outskirts of Dublin and Cork 

 and in Galway, Sligo and Tyrone. Abroad it seems only to 

 be reported from France and Germany. 



37. E. jasioneata, Crftve. — Expanse J to ^ inch (18- 

 22 mm.). Eore wings long and narrow, bl.ickish-brown ; 



