24S LEPID OP PER A . 



1. L. permixtana, Hul>., reliquana, Willi., Stn. — 

 Fore wings narrowly trigonate, pale tawny, or bright yellow 

 chestnut, with two dorsal dark brown spots and a large dark 

 costal triangle. 



Antennae black brown ; palpi and head pale buff ; thorax 

 tawny ; abdomen leaden black. Fore wings narrowly trigo- 

 nate, costa flatly arched, apex sharply angulated, hind 

 margin oblique ; pale tawny or yellow chestnut ; basal 

 blotch deeper tawny, its outer margin squarely angulated ; 

 close to this is an erect triangular brown dorsal spot, followed 

 by another close to the anal angle ; costal area largely occu- 

 pied by a roughly triangular black brown blotch ; hinder 

 area red brown, with faint tawny costal streaks ; cilia yellow- 

 ish white. Hind wings smokj' white, with white cilia. 

 Female similar but with the hind wings, and their cilia, dark 

 brown. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown ; base and 

 dorsal margin paler; costa dotted with fulvous. Hind 

 wings smoky white. 



On the wing in May and the beginning of June. 



Larva cylindrical, tapering moderately toward either 

 extremity ; segmental divisions deeply cut ; segments flat- 

 tened ; head small, shining pale brown ; dorsal plate similar 

 with a narrow grey edging behind ; anal plate not notice- 

 able ; colour dark puce, with the raised dots white and small 

 but conspicuous ; legs black. Yery active, jumping about 

 like a Gclcchia larva. (Dr. Wood.) 



July and August, on sloe {Prunus sjnnosa). There are 

 several records from continental sources of food plants from 

 which it is said to have been reared, but they seem to point 

 to a polyphagous habit, and to a necessity for further 

 observation. 



Pupa uniformly pale yellow, in an oval closely woven 

 cocoon, of pure white silk, between two united sloe-leaves. 

 (Dr. Wood.) 



