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clouding-; apical blotch visible, yellow, edged with tawny, 

 which also shades the hind margin ; cilia spotted as on the 

 upper side, lliud wings clear yellowish-white; cilia pale 

 yellow, faintly spotted with brown. Eody and legs pale 

 yellow. 



llather variable in the depth and richness of the colouring 

 of the central band ; more so in the degree of reddish clouding 

 over the ground colour, which in some specimens almost per- 

 vades it, in others is but faint, or even nearly absent. A 

 specimen taken many years ago in the Isle of j\Ian. which 

 passed into the possession of the late ilr. I']dward llopley, 

 afterwards into that of ilr. F. IJond, and is now in the col- 

 lection of ^[r. Sydney Webb, is yellow, but has the central 

 band broken into two blotches. I know of no similar 

 specimen, and anj' striking variation in this species is 

 extremely rare. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva. Leugtli about five-sixths of an inch, and of average 

 bulk in proportion ; head rather narrower than the second 

 segment, its lobes rounded, and when at rest it appears to be 

 notched on the crown; the notch, however, is really upon the 

 second segment, being formed by an extension of the skin 

 into two prominences above the top of tlie head. Body of 

 nearly uniform width, rounded above and below, but the two 

 portions separated by a wrinkled lateral ridge ; the skin has 

 also a wrinkled appearance, and the segments are very dis- 

 tinctly divided. Head, and the gi-onnd colour of the body, 

 uniformly bright pale green ; dorsal line double, grey ; sub- 

 dorsal lines of the same colour but more boldh* defined : a 

 yellow margin extends along the lateral ridge, forming the 

 spiracular line, and the segmental divisions are also yellow ; 

 ventral surface, legs and prolegs bright pale green, the 

 posterior segments yellower, and all the segmental divisions 

 yellow. (G.' T. I'orritt.) 



April to June ujion wild I'ose — Roia cani/m, Ji. spinosis 



