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shaded with brown and edged with pairs of black dots ; cilia 

 whitish-brown. Female rather smaller, with the markings a 

 little more obscure, and the body shorter. 



Undersides of all the wiugs pale brown, abundantly dusted 

 with black-brown ; discal spot, second line, and all the outer 

 markings of the fore wings visible ; those of the hind wings 

 sharply defined, and more distinct than on the upper side- 

 Body and legs pale brown. 



liather variable in the depth of colour of the two brown 

 transverse stripes, the umbreous colour being occasionally 

 almost absent from both. I have a specimen in which the 

 central band is compU-tely filled with this colour, while the 

 outer band is almost obliterated. In some districts specimens 

 of the second generation are smaller, and of darker colour, 

 than those of the first. 



On the wing from the end of May to the beginning of 

 July, and as a rather abundant second generation, in August 

 and Sejitember. 



Lakva nearly cylindrical, tapering slightly and gradually 

 from the tenth segment to the head, which is as wide as the 

 second segment ; skin smooth ; head green, with brownish 

 bristles; ground colour yellowish-green, of a more tender 

 tint on the hinder segments ; the back from the fourth to the 

 ninth segments, both inclusive, more or less suffused with 

 brownish-pink ; second segmeut full green ; third dull green ; 

 dorsal line of a deeper tint of whatever colour it passes 

 through — pink through the brownish-pink — greenish after 

 the ninth segment, and thickening almost into a narrow 

 diamond as it passes each fold ; subdorsal line pale, often 

 edged above and below with a fine dark thread, the upper 

 edging haying a blackish dash at the beginning of each 

 segment ; the rest of the side is divided by a faint pale line 

 into halves, of which the upper is of the same colour as the 

 back, and the lower decidedly darker; on its lower edge, on 

 each segment, is a black or blackish dash; spiracles pale red. 



