44 LF.PIDOPTERA. 



edged by a brown line ; cilia shining white with a yellowish 

 line at the base. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining dark smoke colour ; 

 hind wings equally shining, rather paler. Body and legs 

 yellowish-white. 



\^arying a little in the shade of ground colour and in the 

 distinctness of the dots : Jlr. C. A. Watts has found very 

 strongly marked specimens in the middle of Kent. 



On the wing from the end of June till the beginning of 

 August. 



Lakva stout, tapering at each extremity, the legs small 

 and placed much beneath the body ; segmental divisions 

 and transverse wrinkles deeply cut ; head shining reddish- 

 brown ; dorsal plate of the same colour, with a pale central 

 line and blackish spots on either side ; the anal segment has 

 a shining brown plate on the anal tip and a similar trans- 

 verse patch in front of it ; ground colour of the back and sides 

 a whitish tiesh tint, of the undersurface bluish or greenish- 

 white ; dorsal stripe pink ; on each side is a broad pink stripe ; 

 below this the black spiracles, and beneath each of them a 

 small pink dash ; raised dots minute, brown. (W. Buckler — 

 condensed.) When younger the body is tinged with green. 



August and September, in the flower and seed-heads of 

 Cardvus lanccolatas and occasionally of V. tcHuiflorvs ; eating 

 the seeds and hollowing out a large chamber in the basal 

 portion of the flower-head. 



PuPArather slender, the head somewhat projecting, wing and 

 limb-covers well defined, very smooth and shining; segments 

 also smooth and glossy ; anal segment thick and rounded, 

 cremaster also thick and round, having a few minute bristles ; 

 colour bright light chestnut, segments deeper brown. In a 

 loose dull dark brown cocoon, among any rubbish or in the 

 ■earth ; in this as a larva through the winter. 



The moth sits during the day upon thistles, and is then — 



