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lolotches generally disappear 011 the posterior segments and 

 are sometimes wanting altogether; spiracular line waved, 

 pale yellow or whitish ; on the undersurface is a central 

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



Among those figured by Mr. Buckler some are bright 

 green, with the blotches pink, carmine, purple, dull purple, 

 or absent; the dorsal line in most of these purple; and in 

 one case a lateral series of purple oblique wedge-shaped 

 streaks ; others have the ground colour reddish-brown, 

 pinkish-brown, or drab, with a similar range of dorsal markings 

 — a very fine series of pretty forms. 



March till May or the beginning of June, on juniper. It 

 clings tightlj" to its food-plant in the day, and is not very 

 easily beaten out. Not at all confined to this plant in the 

 wild state, but feeding on it equally well in gardens, shrub- 

 beries, and other places in which it is cultivated. 



Pupa. Head, thorax, and wing-cases dark green ; abdomen 

 yellowish. In an earthen cocoon, or slight web among the 

 stalks. (II. H. C.) 



The winter is j^assed in the egg-state. 



The moth flies about juniper bushes in hot sunshine from 

 about noon till near sunset, when it settles down, but is on 

 the wing again at late dusk, and at night will come freely to 

 light. In the daytime if the sun is obscured and the weather 

 not cold, it may readily be disturbed from the bushes and so 

 captured. It used to be quite common in the suburbs of 

 London, but lately has ceased to be so, though not wholly 

 absent. Moderately common in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berks, 

 and Oxfordshire, on the chalk hills on which the juniper 

 grows wild ; existing more casually, and more in connection 

 with cultivated juniper in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, 

 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, 

 Staffordshire, Derbj^shire, Yorkshire, South Durham and 

 Cumberland. In Wales Mr. H. W. Vivian has found it in 

 the peninsula of Gower, Glamorganshire. In Scotland it is 



