238 LEPIDOPTEHA. 



12. P. perplexana, Barr. — E.\p;iuse | to J inch (15- 

 18 mm.). Fore wings not broad ; costa well arched and 

 graceful ; fore wings dark red with several rows of minute 

 raised dots, and a larger button in the second row. 



Antenna? red-brown or red-black; palpi, head, and thorax 

 dull red or dark tawny ; abdomen pale reddish-brown. Fore 

 wings somewhat elongated, costa moderately and gracefully 

 arched ; apex pointed ; anal angle full and rounded ; colour 

 red-brown or red-black with a very large costal triangle 

 of a deeper red colour ; at the apex of this triangle is a 

 tuft or " button " of black or brown raised scales ; this 

 button is in a rich red line of minute raised tufts — the 

 second of a series of five such lines of raised dots ; often the 

 triangle is produced into an obscure central band of tlie 

 same dark colour ; in the hind marginal region are one or 

 two moi'e lines of raised dots ; cilia brown. Hind wings 

 glossy, smoky white, margin rather darker ; cilia white. 



Underside of fore wings shining leaden-grey, clouded with 

 white on the costa ; hind wings leaden-white. 



A far more constant species than some of the preceding, 

 yet liable to some variation in the depth of the ground 

 colour, which also sometimes takes an umberous tint, or is 

 often much blackened. 



On the wing from the end of June till August or 

 September. 



Larva rather slender, cylindrical, sluggish, greenish-white 

 with a green dorsal vessel, and the head and dorsal plate pale 

 brown. When young yellowish-white with the dorsal vessel 

 tinged with red or green, and the head and dorsal plate 

 black. 



June on hawthorn and blackthorn, folding down the edge 

 of a leaf lengthwise, or drawing it together and feeding 

 within. 



Pupa light brown, in a slight white cocoon in the larval 

 habitation. 



