298 LEPIDOPTERA. 



l)rown spot containing a fawn-coloured cloud ; this is Hatteued 

 on the margin by another such spot, in which the fawn- 

 coloured portion is a crescent, and this by four similar but 

 smaller spots containing flatter similar crescents along the 

 hind margin, the last uniting with a large similar pale spot 

 at the anal angle which contains two fawn-coloured streaks ; 

 extreme hind margin edged with a red-brown line ; cilia 

 brownish-white, regularly chequered with red-brown. Female 

 larger, very similar, but with the antennas simple, and the 

 abdomen shorter and thicker. 



Very few insects are more beautiful than this, when freshly 

 emerged, and few fade so rapidly while still alive ; but, if 

 carefully preserved, the fading in the cabinet is comparatively 

 slow. 



Underside of the fore wings pea-green, shading off to white 

 on the dorsal margin, and especially so at the anal angle, 

 where the blotch of the upper side is represented in white ; 

 discal dot red-brown. Hind wings rather paler green, shading 

 off along the margins to greenish-white, central spot a red- 

 brown dot ; beyond it is a curved, deeper green, transverse 

 stripe; cilia as on the upper side. Body and legs white;, 

 the knees of the front pair of legs barred with Ijrovvn. 



Usually not variable except in size, and a little in the 

 extent and depth of colonr of the pale blotches. A specimen 

 in the collection of the late Mr. F. Bond is of the purplish- 

 red colour of Elhrpia fasduria. Captured specimens are 

 sometimes dull pale yellow from excessive fading. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. Rarely, 

 specimens of a second generation have been found in 

 September. 



Lak\a. Body flattened, attenuated toward the head, 

 which, with the Ijody. is reddi8li-l)rown ; dorsal line fuscous; 

 subdorsal line wavy, fuscous ; and underneath the spiracles 

 is a row of fuscous spots ; on each segment from the fifth to 

 the ninth inclusive, and on the twelfth, is a pair of dark 



