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equally bright yellow-green ; dorsal stripe dark green or dark 

 brown ; subdorsal Hues rather indistinct grej'ish-white ; below 

 them is a still more indistinct line of the same colour, and a 

 similarly coloured faint line along the spiracular region ; 

 segmental divisions of the same pale colour ; ventral surface 

 of the colour of the upper surface ; the legs reticulated, aud 

 the prolegs tipped, with black. 



May and June on the shoots, buds and flowers of J^rronuu 

 chamcednjs (Speedwell). 



Pupa rather long but slender, the head, wliich is the thickest 

 part, abru23tly rounded, and having the snout very prominent ; 

 thorax and abdomen rounded above, rather flattened beneath, 

 and tapering strongly to the anal point ; eye, leg, aud wing- 

 cases fairly prominent, the last pi-olouged to a considerable 

 distance on the abdominal segments ; bright green with the 

 abdominal divisions pale grey, two indistinct pale lines on the 

 dorsal area, and several faint purplish spots behind the 

 thorax, and on the anal segment ; or dingy green with a 

 distinct purple dorsal stripe, edged on each side with grey ; 

 the abdominal divisions and the tip of the prolonged wing- 

 cases also purple. It is capable of considerable movement, 

 and on being disturbed turns up sharply the thorax and 

 higher abdominal segments to a right angle with the 

 remaining segments. (G. T. Porritt.) Attached by the 

 anal hooks to its food plant, or any convenient neighbouring 

 object. 



The moth is quite common among its food-plant, aud 

 also generally in hedges, dry fields, and the borders of woods; 

 readily disturbed by day and flying freely at dusk. Common 

 throughout the South of England and also in the Eastern 

 and Western Counties, but except in Leicestershire it seems 

 to be scarce or absent in the Midlands, though reappearing 

 freely in Yorkshire, Darham, Cheshire and Lancashire. In 

 Wales I only know it in Pembrokeshire, yet it is probably 

 well distributed. In Ireland it seems to be yeuerally 



