HlPPOTIO>r. 19 



It is yellowish - green, with four rose-coloured longitudinal 

 stripes on the thorax, and a longitudinal stripe on the 

 abdomen ; the sides and extremity of the abdomen are of the 

 same colour. There is a black spot on each side of the second 

 segment of the latter. The fore-wings have a rose-coloured 

 transverse stripe running from the tip to the middle of the 

 inner margin, and another nearer the base, running from 

 the inner margin to the middle of the wings ; there is also a 

 broad band of the same colour on the hind margin. Hind- 

 wings rose-coloured, with the base black. The fringes of the 

 fore-wings are rose-coloured, and those of the hind-wings white. 



The larva is dull grey, or, more rarely, green, marked with 

 black. There is a black ocellated spot on each side of the fifth 

 and sixth segments, the upper part of which encloses a white 

 kidney-shaped outline, centred with brownish-grey. The horn 

 is short, and black tipped with white. It feeds on willow-herb 

 I^Epilohium) bedstraw {Galiian), fuchsia, and vine. 



The moth appears in May and June. It is the commonest 

 species of the sub-family in England. 



GENUS HIPPOTION. 



Ilippoiion^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 135 (1822?); 

 Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii., p. 21 (18S2). 



This genus resembles the last, but the wings are longer, 

 narrower, and more pointed, and the legs and body longer 

 and more slender. The body and wings are adorned with 

 silvery stripes, and the shape of the fore-wings is (|uite 

 different, the hind margins being more oblique and sinuatcd, 

 the hinder angle of the fore-wings projecting dow^nwards, 

 almost in a tooth, and the anal angle of the hind-wings being 

 sub-lobate. The larva is provided with a very slender straight 

 horn of moderate length. 



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