134 LEPinOPTERA. 



extensive blackeninij of the ])iirple areas, and yreat increase 

 in the beauty of the specimen. 

 On the wing in Jiarch and April. 



Lakva elongate, cylindrical; skin transversely wrinkled; 

 head rounded, reddish-brown : body emerald-green, with a 

 broad purplish-pink s])iracular stripe, and the incisions of 

 the segments yellowish ; raised dots white ; prolegs and anal 

 flap purplish-pink. 



Or, with the head and body the same colour and the dots 

 white, no purple spiracular stripe, but the segmental divisions 

 paler green, the spiracles black, and the prolegs tinged with 

 purple. 



Or, very pale emerald green, with a greenish spiracular 

 shade ; the head pale red, or dull orange, and the dots 

 white. (C Fenn.) 



Mr. Buckler figures other varieties, one dark purple-brown, 

 with green mottling on the dorsal region and the green 

 spiracular stripe ; another excessively pale green with the 

 spiracular stripe white : and a third very pale bufi', with the 

 stripe purple-red. 



April to June or the beginning of July, on liosa cunina 

 and other species of wild rose ; on the Continent feeding 

 also on rose in gardens. Feeding at night. Kemaining 

 during the day upon its food-plant at rest, with its anterior 

 segments curled and raised. 



PiPA short and rather stout, thickest at the ends of the 

 wing-covers; abdomen tapering rapidly off, with short 

 segments ; the wing-covers very full, standing out on each 

 side at the shoulders, and having a depression on each side 

 of the dorsal region ; anal segment rounded, but furnished 

 with a thick flattened tapering cremaster, which is finished 

 ofl' with a very slender double spike ; colour glossy deep dark 

 red-brown, almost red-black ; anal point black. In the 

 earth, in a compact egg-shaped silken cocoon covered with 

 ])arficles of eartli. 



