24a LEPIDOPTERA. 



its range is uncertain ; but it is said to be common through- 

 out Central Europe. 



15. P. caledoniana, >^tiph. — E.xpanse i to \ inch (12- 

 18 mm.). Fore wings narrow dark red-brown or purple- 

 brown, with a faint flattened darker purple-brown costal 

 triangle. 



Antennse thick, notched, dull bi-own ; palpi, head, and 

 thorax red-brown : abdomen very slender, grey-brown, anal 

 tuft fulvous. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa flatly afched ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; rough in texture and dull ; dark 

 red-brown or purple-brown, dotted, dusted, or faintly marbled 

 with darker red-brown ; on the dorsal margin near the base 

 is a small black or dark brown spot ; on the costa before the 

 apex a broad, flattened, very faint dark red-brown blotch, 

 hinder area rather reticulated with dark red-brown lines ; 

 cilia pale reddish-brown. Hind wings smoky grey with cilia 

 of the same colour. Female similar or very little darker. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy leaden-brown, with 

 faintly paler costal dots. Hinds wings shining leaden- 

 white. 



Not very variable, the main fluctuation being between 

 dark red and dull brown. 



On the wing ia August and September. 



Larva green with the dorsal region darker, especially in 

 front ; head fulvous, shining, with two lateral black spots> 

 mouth chestnut, dorsal plate shining green. (J. Peers.) 



June and July ; on sweet gale, screwing together the 

 terminal shoots, also on Vaccinium nnjrtillus and perhaps 

 Alchemilla. 



Pupa reddish with paler wing-cases ; in screwed-up shoots 

 of sweet-gale. The apex of the puparium is flat or com- 

 pressed, truncate and somewhat bent under, terminating at 

 each corner in a short bent hornlike process. (J. Peers.) 



