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On the wing in April and May, and casual specimens of a 

 liartial second generation may sometimes be found in July or 

 Ausrust. 



Larva. — Head of the same size as the second segment j 

 body cylindrical, gradually increasing in size to the eleventh 

 segment; colour very light brown, mottled with various 

 brown shades ; the dorsal line increases in width from its 

 commencement to the middle of the fifth segment, and also 

 deepens in colour ; it then assumes a much lighter shade to 

 the eighth segment, becoming darker on the folds of the 

 segmental divisions; on the lighter portions there are two 

 black dots above the middle of each segment, placed trans- 

 versely ; the ninth segment is again darker in colour, espe- 

 cially towards the edges of the line, which is irregularly 

 defined ; the tenth and eleventh segments are darker in the 

 divisions ; on the twelfth there is a black line running 

 transversely, and assuming the shape of a bow ; the sides are 

 mottled with various shades of brown, being darkest towards 

 the anterior portion of each segment, especially the sixth to 

 the ninth ; spiracles dark brown ; the ventral surface is 

 more mottled than the dorsal, with a black V-shaped mark 

 appearing at the commencement of the fifth to the ninth 

 segments ; prolegs slightly tinged with green, and on the 

 first pair is a black line ; the bow-shaped line of the twelfth 

 segment continues on the eleventh, running under the eighth 

 spiracle, and a mark of the same colour runs under the ninth 

 spiracle. (Rev. P. H. Jennings.) 



Or — Ground colour pale greyish or greenish-drab ; seg- 

 mental divisions pink ; down the middle of the back a series 

 of purplish blotches become confluent on the anterior and 

 posterior segments, on the latter almost evanescent ; back, 

 undersurface and anal plate sparingly spotted with black ; 

 immediately preceding the latter a black belt encircles the 

 whole body ; spiracular lines dusky ; undersurface greenish 

 with spiracle-like spots in the middle of each segment. 



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