i84 I.EI'IDOI'TERA. 



Lakna stout, tapering a little to each extreniity ; sides 

 ])rojectiiinf ; timlei-surface slightly flattened; head rather 

 small and rounded, dull reddish or dull green ; phite on the 

 seconil segnu-nt dull red ; Ixjdy brilliant gi'een — the tint of 

 the young iieather shoots ; on the back is a series of pink or 

 lilac triangles from the fourth to the eleventh segment, the 

 base of each triangle behind and bisected by the dorsal line, 

 which is brownish, the ajiices yellow, the sides of these tri- 

 angles broadly edged mth olive-brown or deep velvety- 

 chocolate ; twelfth and anal segments with a broad purplish 

 or ferruginous dorsal shade; a conspicuous white spiracular 

 stripe, sometimes iuteri'upted, on each segment; spiracles 

 black ; uudersurface ])aler than the ground colour, often 

 having three whitish strijjes, the middle one wide, and divided 

 by an interrupted grey line; between the divisions on tlie 

 back and sides are numerous short longitudinal whitish 

 streaks or threads. 



The tjround colour varies trreatlv. and is often vellowish- 

 green, purplish-red. or violet-brown ; the spiracular stripe 

 occasionally cream-colour, its upper edge sometimes boi'dered 

 with a dark reddish line ; the dorsal triangles often tinged 

 with dchi-eous. (Chas. i'eun. ) 



August till .Mayor even .) uue. hybernating when rather 

 small; on Vmi'iniii in ///////////'< (whortleberry), V. citis-'ala:(i, 

 S(i.ri//-fif/a fiizoidcs, heather and heath; also in confinement 

 on willow and kuottrrass. 



I'il'A cylindrical, rather slender, eyes ju-ominent ; skin 

 glossy ; wing-covers olive-brown ; dorsal region yellow-brown; 

 eyes, abdominal rings, and anal segment dark brown. (Kev. 

 J. llellins) In a slight cocoon in the earth. 



'I'lii- moth loves to sit, during the day on the perpendicular 

 face of a rock, ami in mountain districts will sometimes rest 

 in plenty on such places, flying off in clouds at the collector's 

 a])i)ioacli. Any outcrop of stone or rock, or even a stone 

 wall, if high on a hill, is available, but in many districts only 



