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white, has narrow fore wing's, very pointed, and a Iieautiful 

 series of grey-black and grey bands and stripes throughout ; 

 a tliird, eipially white, has broad dull black-brown bands and 

 no intermediate slender lines ; and a fourth has fore and hind 

 wings shining bufl". Another of the white ground, in the 

 collection of Mr. S. J. Capper, has the middle portion of the 

 central band and the markings near the apex Ijlack. 

 On the wing in June, July, and August. 



Lauva slender, tapering toward the head, which is rounded, 

 not shining, dull green ; body pale yellowish-green ; dorsal 

 line darker green ; subdorsal lines whitish, the sides Ijroadly 

 suffused with pale dull crimson or pink ; two points which 

 project backward from the anal segments pink ; legs and 

 prolegs tinged with the same colour ; undersurface green, 

 with an interrupted central line. (C. Fenn.) 



April till June, on primrose, chickweed, lesser celandine, 

 wood-anemone, chervil, wood-sorrel {Oxalin acctoticUa'), Li/cli iiis 

 dioica, and other low-growing jilants. especially eating the 

 flowers ; also upon the blossoms of grass ; and in the smaller, 

 hill-frequenting form, upon whortleberry and heather. This 

 larva looks particularly pretty as, resting upon a primrose 

 blossom, it curves gracefully over to eat out the stamens and 

 pistil within the tube of the flower. I can obtain no infor- 

 mation as to the j'oung state of this larva, but it must surely 

 hatch from the egg in autumn — probably August — and 

 hybernate, for it is nearly full-grown in April when we see 

 it upon the primroses. 



Pupa stout, the anal extremity rounded ; pale green, dull 

 green, or light yellowish-ochreous ; in the last case the 

 abdomen is tinged with green. In an oval cocoon of silk 

 ard earth in the ground. (C. Fenn.) 



The moth hides during the day among bracken-fern, 

 heather, bushes and hedges generally, and among any low- 

 growing herbage, and the male is readily disturlied, though 



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