15^1 I.KI'inoi'TERA. 



trees and on their branches, but is then sluggish, and unless 

 the weather is very hot, unwilling to fly, but from about 

 7 P.M. till dark flies swiftly over and about the trees. To 

 be found among apple-trees throughout the United 

 Kingdom ; also all over Europe, Northern Africa, North 

 America to New Mexico, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, 

 and indeed wherever the apple grows throughout the world. 



2. C. splendana, 7//>.— hlxpanse \ to | inch (12-20 

 mm.). Fore wings obtuse, greyish-white, obscured with 

 closely placed lines of grey-brown dusting; hinder area 

 filled by a large blackish-purple ocellus. 



Antenna^ palpi, head, and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen 

 dull brown. Fore wings broad and rather short ; costa not 

 folded, gently arched ; apex squarely angulated, hind 

 margin rather filled out; whitish-grey, costa lined through- 

 out with faintly oblique grey-brown lines, running into 

 transverse dusted lines, and with white gemmated dots 

 toward the apex ; basal blotch large, angulated outwardly, 

 and formed of faint brown-grey lines ; no definite central 

 band ; ocellus usually large, occupying the entire hinder 

 area, purple-black, crossed by a series of black streaks, and 

 perpendicularly by faint silvery lines and edged in front by 

 a pale shade ; hind margin dotted with black; cilia blackish- 

 grey. Hind wings dark brown with whiter cilia. Female 

 similar, often larger. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, with tlie hind 

 margin paler. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 



Occasional specimens are found suffused with smoky- 

 black, the ocellus only being faintly visible and darker. 



On the wing from June till August. 



Larva sluggish, stout, dirty greyish-white, with the 

 dorsal vessel grey and raised dots of the same colour ; head 

 small, yellow-brown ; dorsal plate paler. 



