204 LEPIDUl'TERA. 



indicates tlie or])icular stigma ; second line also black-LrowD, 

 arising at the middle of the dorsal margin, and suddenly bent 

 outward halfway up, makes a broad sweep round audbackto 

 the costa ; at its sudden bend a brown shade rises perpen- 

 dicularly from it to the costa, partially enclosing a yellow 

 patch in the discal cell ; subterminal line excessively un- 

 dulating but faint or often only dotted, of a paler brown ; cilia 

 shining leaden brown. Hind wings rather short, the apex 

 angulated and hind margin gently curved ; tawny yellow 

 shaded with brown ; base dusted with shining brown ;. 

 beyond, in succession, are three looped and rippled similar 

 brown transverse lines ; hind margin leaden brown ; cilia 

 shining leaden white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky j'ellow, with two 

 black lines from the costa and a pale yellow spot in the discal 

 cell ; dorsal margin broadly shining silky white. Hind wings 

 paler smoky yellow, with the markings of the upper side 

 faintly repeated. Body and legs pale yellow-brown, the 

 front tarsi yellow-white. 



( )n the wing in June, July and the beginning of August. 



JjARVA nearly an inch long, tapering at each end, segments 

 well divided ; prolegs slender, the anal pair extended behind 

 in line with the body ; head pale semi-translucent drab, 

 finely dotted on the crown with black, the lobes freckled 

 at the sides with brown, and having a pair of black dots over 

 the mouth ; second segment of the same pale colour, freckled 

 at the sides with light brown and having there a conspicuous 

 elongated black dot ; on the dorsal portion of this segment 

 is a broad triangle of rich semi-translucent full green, which 

 is continued as a dorsal stripe of equal breadth to the 

 eleventh segment, whence it becomes gradually narrower to 

 the thirteenth, having within it a darker pulsating vessel; 

 this green stripe is bordered on either side by a rather 

 narrower stripe of opaque white, ragged and shading off at 

 its outer edge ; sides rich translucent full green, inclining a. 



