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second lines, and the continued lines of the hind wino-s, are 

 all altered into series of sliort black streaks upon nervures ; 

 and a fourth has the fore wings tinged with pale yrlloir. 

 Irish specimens are rather often found to be richly clouded 

 with purplish-pink ; Mr. J. J. F. X. King has one taken at 

 Killucan, West Meath, beautifully ornamented with a broad 

 ill-defined band of this colour ; and Mr. B. A. Bower has one 

 somewhat similar. Finally, Dr. P. B. Mason possesses a 

 specimen in which the usual black dots, which edge the hind 

 margins of all the wings, are altered into short black lines, 

 running inward, and producing a striking effect. 



On the wing m IMay and June, and as a very partial second 

 generation in August. 



Lajua elongate, slightly thickened behind; head large, 

 hardly bifid ; bright red-brown ; face pinkish-brown with 

 two white spots at the top ; general colour bright yellowish- 

 green ; uudersurface ]>aler ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular 

 lines yellowish, very faint and threadlike ; divisions of the 

 segments yellow ; prolegs bright red-brown or pur])le-brown; 

 anal exti'emity. and also the anterior feet, similar; on the 

 undersurface is a faintly paler ventral strii)e. (C. Fenn.) 



Or — Ground colour pinkish-purple, or greyish-purple ; head 

 dark sienna-brown, the mouth and a line down each side of 

 the median suture dull ochreous-yellow ; throughout the 

 dorsal area extends a broad pale smoky band, having thi-ough 

 its centre the pale grey dorsal line ; bordering this band, on 

 each side, are the interrupted, indistinct, similarly coloured 

 subdorsal lines ; there are no perceptible spiracular lines, 

 but that region is variegated with conspicuous pale grey 

 marks ; on the front of the fifth to the ninth segments is, on 

 each, a conspicuous brick-red transverse mark ; spiracles and 

 raised dots distinct, black ; ventral surface dull smoke-colour 

 with an interrupted grey central stripe ; legs pale yellowish- 

 brown, barred with black ; prolegs pinkish-purple. (G. T. 

 Porritt.) 



