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sometimes is very wliite ; and in the bright red cloud beyond 

 the stripes, which sometimes is more dull or pale. The I'onn 

 originally named ixihnJafa, in which it is almost or quite 

 absent, does not seem to occur with us. 

 On the wing in -Tiily and August. 



Larva ratlier stout, uniform in bulk throughout; the 

 colour all over the back to near the spiracles is a rather deep 

 brownish-red, with very fine dorsal and subdorsal lines ot 

 blackish-red ; along the spiracular region is a broad brilliant 

 yellow stripe, separated on the thoracic segments from the 

 red above by a black edging, bat this appears only faintly 

 at the segmental folds for the rest of its length ; this broad 

 yellow stripe is blotched at the folds between segments (i to 

 10 with beautifully solteued blush-like red spots, the black 

 spiracles appearing in the clear yellow spaces ; below this is 

 a blackish-green line, very fine on the thoracic segments, un- 

 dulating in its course, and thickenins' at the folds, becoming 

 gradually tinged with red till at the tenth segment it is a red 

 stripe ; undersurfane pale j^reenisli-yellow. with a paler cen- 

 tral line bordered by darker lines : head dull pinkish-red on 

 the top, paler than the colour of the back, becoming paler 

 still near the mouth ; usual raised dots small, yellow, ringed 

 with brown; ventral prolegs jiinkish-red, and the anal 

 brownish-red with a yellow line down them. When at rest 

 it holds its head downwards, folds all the anterior legs close 

 up to it, and so gives a clubbed appearance to the thoracic 

 segments when viewed sideways, the backs of these segments 

 being arched or humjied up. (Rev. J. llellins.) 



April to June on Vurrliiiinii rifix-'ulira (red whortleberry) 

 and V. o.i'i/roi'ro.-< (cranberry), especially feeding upon tlie 

 flowers while they ai'e available. 



The winter is passed in the egg-state. 



Pupa slender, the head-piece distinctly shaped, the 

 antenna-cases ending in a little projecting knob or bitid 

 spike; skin shining; colour nf the head and wing cases 



