20O LEI'inOI'TERA. 



upper side fiiiutly traced, hut more dotted; luargiual dots of 

 all the wings brown ; cilia white. Body and legs brownish- 

 white. Scarcely variable, or only so in a small degree iu the 

 distinctness and number of the transverse lines, or in their 

 being in some degree united, very rarely, into stripes. 



On the wing in May and June; and occasionally, in an 

 extremely partial second generation, in July, August, or even 

 September. 



L.\H\A upwai-ds of half an inch iu length, its segments 

 tumiil and wriidcled and their divisions deep ; the tubercles 

 warty eminences, each bearing a black, tinely pointed, hair 

 or Ijristle ; head clear ])ale green, marked on each lobe with 

 black ; body very pale yellow-green, blue-green at each 

 extremity, ratlier sulphur-colour along the putfed spiracular 

 region ; the subdorsal stripe faintly wiiitish-yellow ; the 

 second segment deep damask rose pink on the back, faintly 

 divided by a dorsal line of pale green just at the beginning; 

 this rich crimson colour continues on the third, fourth, and 

 front of the fifth segments, bounded by the subdorsal lines, 

 within which it forms a broad stripe ; it spreads on the fifth 

 in a saddle-like way to the spiracles ; on each from the si.xth 

 to ninth segments there is an irregular triangular blotch of 

 crimson ; on the s])iracular region on the tenth to the anal 

 extremity it is lilled uj) with crimson between the subdorsal 

 stripes; the spiracles are of the ground colour, outlined with 

 black; tiie ventral surface pale yellow-green, broadly blotched 

 on all but the tenth segment, with crimson, on each side, 

 softened towards the centre, but the last three segments 

 paler pink ; the pale yellow spiracular puffed region separa- 

 ting the crimson of the upper surface from that beneath; 

 all the legs pink. (W. Buckler.) 



July and August, on birch, hazel, wild rose, and horn- 

 beam ; its position upon its food curiously huuclied. 



I'fPA very small, shining, moderately slender, but the 

 wing-covers swollen and the eye-covers and head ])rominent ; 



