250 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Antennae simple, purple-brown ; palpi long, porrected, 

 pointed, pale chocolate, with a white tuft of scales beneath ; 

 head and thorax chocolate-brown ; abdomen tajiering', pale 

 ochreous. Fore wings elongated, very narrow at the base > 

 costa faintly arched throughout ; apex angulated ; hind 

 margin a little retuse, then gently curved and very oblique ; 

 anal angle prominent; dorsal margin somewhat hollowed; pale 

 purple-brown, shaded with darker; first line hardly perceptibly 

 blacker, rather oblique ; second line an obscure series of cloudy 

 blackish dots lying in a paler shade; in the discal cell are 

 two cloudy black spots, the outer rather squared ; cilia purple- 

 brown. Hind wings rounded behind ; bright yellow; along the 

 hind margin is a smoky black band, broadest towards the apex; 

 cilia pale yellow. Female larger, similar, or with the colour 

 of the fore wings deeper, and the markings more distinct. 



Undersides of all the wings ochreous-yellow shading into 

 pale purple-brown toward the apex and hind margin ; discal 

 spot distinct, smoky black. Body and legs yellow. 



On the wing in June ; and possibly as a second generation 

 in August and September. 



Larva slightly over one inch in length, of an elongate 

 fusiform shape, somewhat narrow in proportion to its length ; 

 head round, rather flattened in front, black, with a few short 

 white hairs ; second segment small, black, with three pale 

 lines, the two outer extending to only one-half its length ; the 

 middle one joins a broad pale dorsal stripe which reaches the 

 anal segment in small spots ; there is a narrow yellowish- 

 white, spiracular line, adjoining the upper side of which is 

 a row of bright yellow blotches; the space between the latter 

 and the dorsal stripe is black, with, on each segment, three 

 brighter black warts, each of which emits a rather long white 

 hair. (Mrs. T. V. Wollaston.) 



June and July on Cytitius nigricans, C. laburnum, TJlex 

 nanus (flowers), and probably other Papilionaceous plants. 

 Mr. G. F. ^lathew says — as to the Mediterranean region — 



