54 LEPIDOPTERA. 



antennas threadlike ; abdomen broad and stout, very suddenly- 

 narrowed to a point at the anal segment. 



Underside of the fore wings brownish-drab, basal portion 

 shaded with pearly-white; central area abundantly clothed 

 with long loose smoky hair-scales ; subcostal region similarly 

 clothed with reddish hairs ; a black spot indicates the reniform 

 stigma, and beyond it is a curved smoky-black transverse 

 stripe ; hind margin blackened. Hind wings brownish- 

 white with the nervures distinctly dark brown ; costa dusted 

 with yellow-brown ; central spot ill-defined, black-brown ; 

 beyond it is an abundantly rippled reddish-black transverse 

 stripe ; hind margin streaked with the same colour. Body 

 and legs black-brown, clouded with purplish-red. 



Hardly variable except in the darkness and extent of the 

 central smoky-black clouding, and of the black edging of the 

 reniform stigma, as already indicated ; but in Dr. Mason's 

 collection is a specimen having the fore wings wholly suffused 

 with smoky-black clouds. 



On the wing from the end of September to November, then 

 hybernating, but only in severe weather ; and again upon the 

 wing from March sometimes until May. 



Laeva elongated, moderately cylindrical, but tapering a 

 little toward the head and rather suddenly at the hinder 

 extremity ; head pale-green or yellowish-green ; body rich 

 bright green with hardly any indication of a dorsal line ; 

 subdorsal lines broad and conspicuous, rich yellow ; along 

 their upper edge is sometimes a series of oblong black blotches 

 dotted with white ; spiracular stripes scarlet edged beneath 

 with white or yellow ; spiracles white ; raised dots also white 

 in black rings and those on the dorsal surface often united 

 in pairs by intermediate black dashes ; prolegs very large 

 and stout, bright green, as also are the legs and under- 

 surface. Very few larva of beauty equal to this are known 

 here. 



April to July, on the leaves and flowers of low-growing 



