If' LEPIDOPTERA. 



curved ; colour rich purple-red, dusted with white ; basal 

 area very full, purple-red to the first line, which is erect, 

 straight, white, but hardly attains the costa ; second line not 

 very oblique, meandering and indented, greyish-white, 

 clouded above the middle with red, and lying in an area of 

 the richest, purple-red ; space between these two lines shaded 

 with black, and broadly dusted and clouded with ashy-white, 

 in which is placed the discal spot in the form of a faint black 

 crescent, or of two separate obscure black dots; hind mar- 

 ginal region grey-brown with white dusting ; cilia shining 

 grey. Hind wings ample, rounded behind, smoky-brown ; 

 cilia concolorous. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoke colour ; a 

 slender pale line before the apex is yellow at the costa. 

 Hind wings shining, pale smoke colour. Body pale brown. 



On the wing from June till August. 



LiiiVA moderately slender ; head rounded, rather less than 

 the second segment, shining, dingy rusty-red, with a black 

 crescent on each lobe ; dorsal plate of the same colour but 

 blotched with black; general colour, dull dark chocolate- 

 brown ; raised dots very small, shining, each bearing a single 

 hair ; on each side of the third and twelfth segments is an 

 ocellated spot of a flesh colour with a minute black centre, 

 also bearing a hair ; spiracles small, cii'cular, flesh colour ; 

 legs marked with black ; prolegs flesh colour with dark brown 

 hooks. (W. Buckler — condensed.) 



April to the beginning of June, on blackthorn {Frunus 

 spiiiosa), preferring the more stunted bushes, inhabiting a 

 tubular web on the topmost twigs, where it draws together 

 the leaves and feeds thereon, being also rather disposed to 

 shelter itself in any small tufts of wool left on the twig 

 by a nibbling sheep. 



I'l'PA moderately stout, deep reddish-brown ; the abdomen 

 terminating in a knob, furnished with three extremely 

 minute, curved-tipped bristles. In a cocoon of brownish- 



