LA REN Tin.-E—MELAMPrE. lo; 



the beautifully smooth white colour extending to the hind 

 margin, corapletelj- erasing the usual hind marginal clouds. 

 ( )ue from the Isle of Wight in ]\lr. F. J. Hanbiuy's collection 

 has the band unusually blue, narrow, and far more than 

 usually toothed on its outer margin, while the whiter spaces 

 ou all the wings are exquisitely rippled with blue-grey 

 scalloped lines. Mr. S. J. Capper has one of the more 

 ordinary colour in which the central band is broken u]} into 

 ovate divisions, while the bluish-black colouring is spread 

 along the costal margin toward the apex ; and in the collec- 

 tion of Dr. P. B. Mason is an old specimen from Haworth's 

 collection (and labelled 4'-annulata) which has the pale band 

 outside the basal blotch broken up into four white spots 

 having dark rings. 



On the wing from the end of May till the beginning of 

 July; and in southern districts a second generation in 

 August and September. In more northern districts this is 

 more doubtful, and I have known, in Wales, a pupa obtained 

 in the autumn to produce the moth so late as the end ot July. 



Larva almost uniformly cylindrical ; head pale brown 

 with two rather broad dark stripes united on the crown, but 

 widely separated at the mouth ; the rest of the head is dotted 

 with black ; body brown, with parallel stripes of different 

 •■.hades extending its entire length ; the dorsal stripe is 

 almost black, and on each side of it is a paler stripe ; in eacli 

 of these paler stripes are four black spots, one each on thr 

 anterior edge of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth seg- 

 ments ; outside each of these subdorsal stripes is a very pale 

 stripe, almost white ; then follows a broader, more diffuse, 

 and more irregular double brown stripe, perhaps more pre- 

 ciselj' described as two, brown and closely approximate, 

 rivulet stripes, a very delicate pale line passing between 

 them ; then follows a paler stripe, in which are situated thp 

 spiracles ; and finally the undersurface is paler but striped 

 much in the same manner as the back. (E. Newman.) 



