148 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Or — Ground colour uniform sea-green ; the dorsal lines and 

 spots wholly, or almost entirely, wanting. 



Or — Ground colour greenish-yellow, with a series of rusty 

 lozenge-shaped dorsal spots or bars ; the sides and under- 

 surface more or less sufEused with rust-colour ; segmental 

 divisions bright yellow. 



Or — Ground colour bright yellow, with a series of broad 

 dull red dorsal bars, intersected and bordered by lines of the 

 same colour ; sides and undersurface thickly clouded with 

 red. 



Other varieties figured by Mr. W. Buckler are pale purple 

 or pale grey with the dorsal markings as described, or the 

 middle series formed into very ornamental sharp dark purple 

 triangles, and a spiracular series of purple streaks. Alto- 

 gether an exceedingly pretty as well as variable larva. 



June and July, and the second generation from August till 

 November ; on flowers of Clematis vitalba, Artemisia vulgaris, 

 Uupatoriumcannahinum, Solidagovirgaurea, Ly thrum salicaria, 

 Lysimachia vulgaris, Hypericum perforatum. Achillea mille- 

 folium, Angelica sylvestris, Thymus serpyllum, and other 

 blossoms, and even on blackberries. 



Pupa. It has the abdomen very much curtailed and 

 sharply pointed ; the eyes black and very promnient ; the 

 thorax and wing-cases spotted with black, the latter much 

 ribbed. The spots do not appear for a week or two, during 

 which period the pupa is uniform pale yellowish-red. In 

 a rather closely spun cocoon, in the earth. (Rev. H. H. 

 Crewe.) 



The winter is passed in this state. 



The moth sits sometimes on fences, posts, or rails, or the 



t ranks of trees, in the day-time, but more frequently hides 



n thick bushes, and is then rather sluggish. At dusk it 



m ay be taken flying about bushes and hedges. It is rather 



common throughoutthe southern, eastern and western counties 



o Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Cam- 



