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shining pale brown. Hind wings, and the cilia of their lobes 

 very glossy golden brown. Legs long, pale brown or drab, 

 clouded with white. Female stouter, often a little darker in 

 colour, otherwise similar. 



Underside wholly glossy golden-brown, except that there 

 is a faint black streak and some white edging on the costa 

 of the fore wings, and the tips of the lolies are darkened. 

 Body pale drab. 



Rather variable in colour, usually from a little smoky 

 suffusion, but the dark cloud from the fissure to the costa is 

 sometimes obsolete. 



On the wing in -July and August. 



Larva. Head globular and poli.shed, smaller than the 

 second segment, into which it can be partially withdrawn, 

 pale green, the mandibles brown ; body of nearly uniform 

 width throughout, but tapering slightly behind, bright 

 yellowish-green ; throughout the entire length is a broad 

 dorsal pink stripe edged on each side by a narrow purplish 

 stripe, which is again edged by a fine white line ; rather 

 thickly clothed with short hairs, those on the dorsal area 

 dark brown, those on the sides nearly white ; ventral sur- 

 face uuiformlv pale green. (G. T. Porritt.) 



May and -June on Inula dysrntcrica (fleabane), /. conjjza 

 (ploughman's spikenard), and abroad on /. grvmanica, 

 I. siilicifolia and /. montana, hiding during 'the day in a 

 hollow of a leaf or of its petiole, feeding at night, riddling 

 the leaves with holes or reducing them to skeletons. When 

 quite young, however, it eats out the youug shoots. 



Pupa thickly clothed on the dorsal surface with short 

 whitish hairs ; green, having on the back a series of pale 

 green lozenge-shaped marks connected at the abdominal 

 divisions ; subdorsal region dull purple ; wing-cases pale 

 wreen with several purplish streaks ; underside of the 

 abdomen pale green. Very similar to the larva. On the 



