154 LEPWOPTERA. 



A'-. Fore wings pale grey, with a large purple-black ocellus. 



G. splcndana. 



A^. Fore wings pale grey, with dark basal blotch and 

 obscure ocellus. C. (jrossana. 



A^. Fore wings white, clouded with grey, with a large blue- 

 black ocellus. G. Juliana. 



A?. Fore wings bluish-grey, with a white dorsal blotch and 

 obscure ocellus. G. nimhana. 



1. C. pomonella, Linn. Expanse f to f inch (18-22 

 mm.). Fore wings grey, covered with dark grey transverse 

 lines ; ocellus lustrous purple, filling the entire hind 

 marginal area. 



Antennae black-brown ; palpi, head and thorax grey- 

 brown, dusted with pale grey ; abdomen dull brown. Fore 

 wings elongate, very blunt ; costa not folded, flatly arched ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin perpendicular but 

 slightly curved ; grey with numerous darker grey rippled 

 transverse lines, parallel to each other throughout ; among 

 them the basal blotch is indicated by a shade of darker 

 colour having, an erect but curved edge ; no central band ; 

 ocellus quite unusually large, purple-brown, with several 

 erect glowing-red lustrous lines, edged in front with black ; 

 along the hind margin is a black line ; cilia blackish-grey. 

 Hind wings very dark brown ; base paler, cilia dusky white. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings black-brown, dotted along 

 the costa with grey. Hind wings brownish- white, much 

 reticulated with golden-brown. 



On the wing in June and July ; usually I think single- 

 brooded with us, but the late Mr. Parfitt stated that, in 

 Devon, a second generation emerged in August. Kollar 

 moreover states that on the Continent of Europe there are 

 two generations in the year ; while Professor T. D. A. 

 Cockerell assured me that in New Mexico it has several 



