70 LEPIDOPTERA. 



another faint brown line; cilia of the colour of the wings. 

 Female very similar. 



Underside of all the wings yellowish-drab, with the central 

 dots and outer lines very faintly indicated ; costa of the fore 

 wings golden-brown. Body and legs pale yellow-brown. 



Usually not variable, but in several collections there are 

 specimens in which the ground colour is more yellow, the 

 band paler, and the costa has more of a reddish tinge. 



On the wing in June and Jul\-. 



Lakva seven-eighths of an inch in length ; broadest at the 

 ninth segment and thence tapering gradually smaller to the 

 head ; the posterior segments tapering but little ; anal tip 

 rounded ; the body is convex both above and below, and has 

 a projecting rounded ridge along the sides, so that it appears 

 somewhat flattened ; the hinder edge of each segment projects 

 a little at the side, beyond the beginning of the next ; skin 

 rugose, with numerous dividing wrinkles on each segment; 

 head indented on the crown, blackish-brown, with a con- 

 spicuous cinnamon or rust-coloured marking on the crown 

 of each lobe, extending as a stripe down its outer side ; a 

 patch of the same colour is on the dorsal surface of the thi-ee 

 following segments, being rounded at the sides on the second 

 segment, triangular and pointing backwards on the third and 

 fourth ; with these exceptions the back so far as the end of 

 the eighth segment is deeply suffused with dark brown, the 

 remainder being again of a light rust-colour, 'strongly con- 

 trasting with the darker hue of the middle segments ; on the 

 back of each segment from the fifth to the ninth inclusive, 

 are double darker brown markings, something like Vs point- 

 ing backwards, and standing, one a little in front of the 

 other, at the hinder part of the segment ; their limbs are 

 curved outward soon after their commencement, and by 

 degrees finely attenuated as they reach the next segment in 

 front, each arm of a V bein<j thus like a miniature willow 

 leaf ; in front of these and embraced by their arms is a 



