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cut off bend being red-brown ; near the dorsal margin, 

 before the middle, ai-e usually two faint smoky-black dots 

 placed side by side ; the discal spot is indicated by a more 

 distinct black dot ; cilia shining pale drab. Hind wings 

 not large, rounded behind ; glossy pale smoky-brown ; cilia 

 concolorous, shining. Female similar, with quite simple 

 antennas. 



Underside of the fore wings shining, uniform, smoky 

 reddish-drab. Hind wings smoky-white. Body and legs 

 brownish-white. 



Rather variable in size ; and it is somewhat remarkable 

 that the few specimens originally taken in this country, 

 over sixty years ago, are decidedly larger than those found 

 in recent years. 



On the wing from the end of May till July ; abroad it is 

 said to appear in two generations — in May and August. 



Larva 9 mm. in length; upper surface red, .slightly 

 tinged with green, the dorsal region a little darker, having 

 on each side three or four fine lines, faintly marked and 

 slightly reddish, much confused and interrupted at the 

 divisions of the segments; undersurface yellowish-green, 

 brighter than the upper; head shining pale red; mouth 

 reddish-black ; thoracic plate large, shining, a little paler 

 than the head; spiracles large, black; the first two larger 

 still, the last two smaller, than all the rest ; anal plate 

 wanting. (M. Lafaury.) 



August and September, in the seed pods of Lotus cornicLO- 

 latus, Ononis arvensis, Anthi/Uis indmraria, and Astra- 

 galus ; entering the pod at the apex, eating out the seeds, 

 and leaving it at the lower end to enter a fresh pod. Hyber- 

 nating when full fed in a round ball of silk and sand ; 

 leaving this hybernaculum in the spring to crawl about and 

 spin up, in some suitable corner, in an oval silken cocoon, of 

 a pure white, covered with grains of sand. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



