174 LEPWOPTERA. 



Fore wings black-brown with a bent silvery-white slender 

 transverse stripe, followed by one or two similar but incom- 

 plete silvery lines. 



Antennas dull brown ; palpi and head brown, thickly 

 dusted with white ; thorax dark brown ; abdomen black- 

 brown, the segments edged with white. Fore wings rather 

 narrow, costa nearly straight, apex bluntly rounded, hind 

 margin almost straight ; dark olive-brown, thickly irrorated, 

 except at the base, with golden yellow dusting ; just before 

 the middle is a slender, bent, silvery- white transverse stripe ; 

 beyond it another, less bent, and hardly attaining the dorsal 

 margin ; outside this are three silvery-white costal streaks, 

 and below them two more, one on each side of the ocellus, 

 which contains a series of horizontal black lines ; hind 

 margin edged with a thick black line, which is broken by a 

 silvery-white dash ; cilia smoky white. Hind wings pale 

 smoky brown, streaked with white ; cilia white. Female 

 similar. 



Undersides of all the wings leaden- white ; on the costa of 

 the fore wings are numerous white streaks. 



On the wing in April and May. 



Larva rather active and fat ; dark yellow, slightly hairy, 

 dorsal vessel dull brown ; head light horn-colour. (J. B. 

 Hodgkinson.) 



July on Genista tindoria on the insides of unexpanded 

 flower buds, feeding up very rapidly. 



Pupa dull yellow or chestnut-brown, short and thick, 

 with short wing-covers, which with the limb-covers are 

 brilliantly glossy ; abdominal segments furnished with two 

 prominent ridges, the front one thickly set with minute 

 teeth, not glossy ; creraaster short and very blunt, provided 

 with a cluster of short hooked bristles ; in a white silken 

 cocoon attached to its food or any neighbouring object, or on 

 the earth. 



