LARENTin.^—CIDARIA. 25-5 



line, which is rippled, ami followed by faint black-green 

 streaks surrounded by whitish dusting ; one of these nearest 

 the costa is extended and runs obliquely toward the apex ; 

 extreme hind margin edged with thick short black streaks; 

 cilia pale green dashed with smoky-green. Hind wings large 

 and long, fully rounded behind, smoky-white ; central spot 

 black ; close beyond it is a slender angulated smoky-brown 

 line ; beyond are three transverse faint stripes of the same 

 colour, the broadest lying along the hind margin, which 

 is edged with black streaks ; cilia dusky white, dashed 

 with smoke colour. Female very similar, often of a deeper 

 green. 



Underside of the fore wings sinning greenish-white ; a 

 broad smoky cloud from the base extends to the second line, 

 which is sharply marked, black, and preceded by a nearly 

 parallel, more obscure line, in an angle of which lies the 

 discal spot ; hind-marginal region clouded, especially toward 

 the apex, with green-grey, but divided by the reproduced 

 subterminal line. Hind wings yellowish-white dusted with 

 black ; central spot and two following transverse stripes 

 black, the latter dotted. Body and legs brown shaded with 

 greenish-black. 



Variable in the depth of the ground colour, and in the 

 breadth and intensity of colour of the central band. In some 

 examples the ground is whitish-green, and in these the 

 central liand either narrow and uniform, or broad and quite 

 divided down the middle by paler colouring, so that the 

 specimen has separately the basal, two central, and one or 

 else two Kubmarginal darker stripes. On the other hand, in 

 some specimens the ground colour is fully as deep a green as 

 any of the liands. Fading takes place also in this species 

 during life, though hardly so rapidly as in the preceding ; 

 but very old specimens are sometimes almost yellow or buff. 



Oil the wing in September and October, and after hyber- 

 nation in IMarch and April; indeed, occasionally till May or 

 even June. 



