i6o LEP/DOJ'TKRA. 



piirplish-grey. Specimens from Northern localities are 

 usually of a brij^hter, li<>hter retl, and those from the 

 Hebrides pale red, but with the markings very neatly distinct. 

 A gynaudrous specimen was exhibited at one of the meetings 

 of the South London Hntomological Society in 18'J1. it was 

 taken at South Norwood, in the southern suburbs of Ijondon. 

 In the collection of .\[r. L. B. Prout is a specimen of which the 

 ground colour of the fore wings is soft pale yellowish-buff, 

 almost without markings, except a mottled and striped blue- 

 grey central baud ; its hind wings have no markings beyond 

 the middle. 



On the wing in May and .June : sometimes, and especially 

 when reared indoors, at the end of April ; and a second 

 generation at the end of -Inly and in August. 



Lakv.v slightly attenuated in front ; head rounded, not 

 shining, dull white, the outside of each lobe black, and two 

 grey bars down the face ; general colour yellowish-bi'own, 

 dull ochreous-brown or greenish-grey, mottled and shaded 

 with dark grey on the middle segments ; a series of large 

 pale dorsal diamonds, each containing a black spot, is on 

 each from the fifth to the tenth segment ; on the remaining 

 segments a dark grey dorsal line, the diamonds being most 

 strongly defined on their anterior sides ; subdorsal line 

 waved, distinct, paler than the ground colour, and a waved 

 thread between it and the spiracles; undersurface between 

 it ;ind the s])iracles conspicuously pale reddish-ochreous ; 

 spiracular lint- dark brown, sometimes absent ; usual raised 

 dots whitish; s])iracles black; a paler ventral stripe is 

 margined on each side by a grey stripe ; between this and 

 the spiracles is a row of black dots. (Chas. Fenn.) 



June and July, and a second brood in September and 

 October ; on ground ivy, groundsel, knotgrass, chickweed, 

 bedstraw, woodruff, wild carrot and other low-growing plants. 



i'[p.\ moderately stout, shining, eye- and wing-cases 

 slightly prominent ; anal segment provided with a short 



