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€xternally with darker green ; spiracles red ; below tliem the 

 green fades into a whitish stripe and is forcibly contrasted 

 beneath by a darker tint of the green of the back, softening 

 gradually into a paler green on the ventral surface, where 

 there are three longitudinal whitish stripes, the middle one 

 being the widest. (W. Buckler.) 



March or April to the beginning of June, on the flowers 

 of Bu Ilium fiex-uosum (earth nut). So far as I can ascertain 

 this is its only food in this country ; but it is incredible that 

 a mistake in the plant should have been made by Linne, 

 who evidently named the insect from Charophyllum. Bork- 

 hausen described the larva from the same plant ; and by 

 Hofmann Anthrisctts sylvcstris is given as its food-plant. It 

 seems reasonable, therefore, to suppose that in some parts of 

 the Continent this larva is less dainty in its preferences. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



The winter is passed in the egg state. 



The moth flies about in the daytime, especially in the 

 afternoon, flitting a short distance and then alighting with 

 wings erect, moving about continually in the sunshine. 

 Probably it is quiescent at night. It inhabits damp 

 meadows, always specially frequenting those in which the 

 earth nut grows, and sometimes in such places is to be 

 found in multitudes, also visiting any neighbouring clover 

 fields. Damp spots among hills are also selected, and in 

 such spots in northern districts it is often abundant, yet is 

 everywhere exceedingly local. Formerly it was plentiful at 

 Hampstead, close to London, and is still to be found at 

 Harrow and Willesden, all in Middlesex ; also in suitable 

 places in Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Devon, Oxfordshire 

 — especially in meadows near Oxford — Herefordshire, 

 Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, 

 Oheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, Westmoreland, 

 ■Cumberland and Northumberland. In Wales in Flintshire, 

 Merionethshire, and near Llantrissant, Glamorganshire. In 



