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Hind wings pale smoky-brown, ]Daler at the base, nervures 

 brown ; costal region iridescent greenish-golden ; central 

 spot a large smoky-brown crescent; hind margin strongly 

 crenulated, edged by a brown undulating line ; cilia yellowish- 

 white, intersected by a broad undulating pale brown line. 

 Female stouter, with simple antenn£e, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings brilliantly iridescent at the 

 base and broadly so along the dorsal margin ; costa and hinder 

 half of the wing dusted with purple-red. Hind wings dusky 

 white, abundantly dusted with purple-red over the costal 

 reoion and hinder area; central spot large, lunate, black. 

 Body and legs purplish-brown ; tibiie purple-black barred 

 with yellow. 



Apparently not variable. 



On the wing at the end of September and in October. 



Larva cylindrical but tapering a little to the head, which 

 is rounded, horn colour with darker stripes down the face ; 

 body sienna-brown, between the longitudinal lines sprinkled 

 with white dots ringed with brown, and mostly placed in 

 threes triangularly; down the back is a series of obscure 

 darker brown diamonds, one on each segment, through which 

 passes a slender paler dorsal line; subdorsal lines obscure, 

 double, undulating, darker brown ; sides below them rather 

 deep brown ; spiracles white or yellowish-white ringed with 

 black-brown; uudersurface lighter brown; legs yellowish- 

 brown ; prolegs similar but with a dark brown streak across 

 the feet; but this is absent from the anal prolegs, which, 

 moreover, are slightly extended back and form a rather 

 sloping anal segment. Or of a soft velvety green with paler 

 o-reen head, the white dots surrounded with rather darker 

 green, the longitudinal lines whitish green, apparently little 

 or no trace of the dark dorsal diamonds or of the dark shade 

 down the sides ; but undersurface and legs also green. When 

 young all are light green. 



December to April on Banunculus repens, It. bulbosus, R. 



