1 66 Lloyd's natural history. 



our plate represent both surfaces of the male. We add wood- 

 cuts of the under side of the female and of the upper side of the 

 rare variety A. iole (Denis), in which the white band on the 

 hind-wings is absent. 



Upper side ot the Variety {A. iole). 



The larva is green, with several oblique yellow lines, and 

 with two horns on the head tipped with red, and with a yellow 

 stripe down the outer side. It feeds on sallow, and sometimes 

 on aspen and poplar, and may be looked for in spring. 



The pupa is likewise of a pale green, with a bifid head. 



GENUS THALEROriS. 

 Thakropis, Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur., p. 17 (1S71); Schatz, 

 Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 166 (iSSS). 

 This genus was founded to receive a moderate-sized, but 

 very handsome, Butterfly from Asia Minor, which was originally 

 described by Eversmann as a Vanessa, and shortly afterwards, 

 by Herrich-Schaffer, as an Apatura. The discovery of the 



