134 I.EPinOPTi-lRA. 



Larva cylindrical, hardly tapering to either extremity; 

 colour of head and body ochreous-red ; dorsal line very 

 dusky olive, almost black, interrupted ; down it is a series of 

 dull black or dusky-olive, arrow-shaped blotches, reduced in 

 size on the posterior segments, and merged in the dorsal line 

 on the anterior ; subdorsal lines slender, duskj% bordered 

 with dull yellow ; spiracular lines alternating between dull 

 yellow and dusky olive ; between the subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines is a row of oblique bright yellow stripes, interspersed 

 with dusky blotches ; segmental divisions orange-red ; body 

 thickly studded with minute white tubercles, and thinly 

 clothed with whitish hairs. 



Or — Ground colour pale yellowish-green ; dorsal line and 

 blotches similar to the previous, but of a much paler olive ; 

 spiracular lines, segmental divisions, and oblique lateral stripes 

 greenish-yellow. 



Or — Ground colour orange-red ; back tinged and suffused 

 with dull yellowish-green ; dorsal blotches wanting ; dorsal 

 line reddish-brown or olive, enlarged in the middle of each 

 median segment ; subdorsal lines of the same colour, slender ; 

 spiracular line and oblique lateral stripes greenish-yellow, the 

 latter indistinct. (Rev. H. H. Crewe.) 



June and July, on oak and hawthorn, feeding on the 

 youngest and most succulent leaves, just expanding. Mr. 

 G. F. Mathew has quite recently found it to feed freely upon 

 the blossoms of Qaerciis ilex (evergreen oak). 



Pupa rough and wrinkled, dark dusky red, upper edge of 

 the wing-cases brighter red. In a slight cocoon in the earth 

 or under loose bark. (II. II. C.) 



In this condition through the winter, and often through a 

 second winter. 



The moth loves to sit during the day on the underside of 

 long horizontal branches of oak, in a wood, or under the side 

 branches of lurge hawthorns where they grow together in 



