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distinct dull pale purple, and having a fine white line 

 running through them ; a narrow purple line edged with 

 white extends along the spiracular region : ventral surface, 

 legs and j'i'olegs uniformly pale yellowish-brown. (G. T. 

 Porritt.) 



May and June, and a second generation in the latter part 

 of July and beginning of August, on Eriitltrma cciUaurium, 

 JE. pulchclla, and Chlora iKrfoliata, the second generation 

 feeding on the flowers and seeds, but the earlier gnawing the 

 leaves. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher finds the young larva; till the 

 second moult, mining the leaves. Herr Kaltenbuch says that 

 it hides within the green seed-capsule, eating the contents 

 and keeping well concealed, but protruding yellowish brown 

 frass. It was found b}' Herr Anton Schmid feeding on 

 Gentiana (jei'iiianim. 



Pupa slender, very uniform in width, and almost, if not 

 quite, as long as the full grown larva ; gloss3^ cylindrical, but 

 with a depression on the thorax and front abdominal seg- 

 ments ; mouth and top of the thorax prominently and sharply 

 defined ; the leg-cases extend a loug distance down the front 

 of the abdomen, but before the end become detached from it ; 

 ground colour yellow, almost hidden by a suffusion of deep 

 pink over the surface, which almost forms a stripe from the 

 head through the abdominal segments ; wing- and leg-cases 

 dingy olive tinged with pink. (G. T. Porritt. j 



The moth is an obscure-looking creature, appearing at fir.st 

 sight like a faded example of the last species. It is easily 

 disturbed by day from its hiding place among the food-plants, 

 and flies voluntarily at dusk, but is not then very visible. A 

 form hardly differing from it in any degree was described 

 in 1868 as a distinct species under the name of Hot7;/kinsoni, 

 but it appears to be nothing more than the first brood of 

 this species as found in North Lancashire and Westmore- 

 land. 



Rather local, but found in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Dorset, 



