jS-J LEPIDOPTERA. 



green, more decidedly green on the back ; dorsal stripe a 

 fine but clear yellowish-white line ; there is a much broader 

 stripe of the same colour along the spiracular region, and 

 the space between it and the spiracles is freckled with streaks 

 and spots of the same colour ; spiracles black ; hairs grey : 

 ventral surface, legs, and prolega pale green ; each raised 

 dot emits a tuft of short but rather strong hairs. 



July and August on Coiivolvulu'i scpima, and C. arvejisix, 

 eating the young shoots. Mr. South found several feeding 

 upon Convolvulus tricolo?; and fed them afterwards upon 

 Ipomaa jmiyurea. Mr. Porritt finds it constantly in hill 

 districts from which the species of Convolvulus are absent, 

 feeding upon Vaccinium mi/rtilh's (bilberry) and Cal/iino 

 vidgaris (ling) ; and in North America it is found to feed 

 upon Chcnopodiam and Atnplex. 



Pupa at first green, afterwards pale dingy brown ; more or 

 less suffused with reddish-brown along the back ; dorsal and 

 lateral Hues interrupted, blackish-brown ; raised dots and 

 hairs as in the larva, except that some of the dorsal series 

 are blackish ; head flattened, marked with brown and thickly 

 covered with short hairs ; wing cases j'ellowish-green faintly 

 streaked with brown. Attached by the anal hooks to the 

 stem of the food-plant or other neighbouring object. (P. 

 South.) 



The moth sits during the day among herbage on a hedge- 

 bank, or in a hedge, or any bushes, sometimes also on a post 

 or paling, where, with fore wings rolled round the hind and 

 the long legs laid closely to the long body, it forms as neai 

 and cleanly-cut a little sign-post, or cross of two singli- 

 fingers from an upright, as can well be conceived. In sucli 

 a form and place of security, it may often be seen — even 

 here in the London suburbs — when the fierce winds of 

 October or even November have driven it out of its more 

 ordinary concealment in the bushes or among the weed>. 



