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similar transverse line beyond. Hind wings dull yellow, dusted 

 with orange-red, especially so along the costal region ; 

 nervures yellow-brown. Body pale tawny-brown with a red 

 flush ; front portion of the legs purple-brown with orange- 

 crimson tufts. 



Hardly ever variable, but in the collection of Mr. S. J. 

 Capper, at Huyton Park, Liverpool, are two in which the 

 shape of the gold spot is altered into an irregular 

 rhomboid. 



On the wing at the end of June, in July, and even August. 

 A second generation has been met with in September in 

 Ireland, and has also been reared in October from larvae kept 

 in a warm greenhouse. 



Larva when full grown provided with only six prolegs ; it 

 has a habit of greatly lengthening the anterior segments 

 when feeding or walking, so as to make them appear very 

 slender in comparison to the rest of the body. Colour bright 

 rich green ; dorsal line narrow, darker green ; on the sides 

 are three wavy white longitudinal lines, but so slender as 

 hardly to be noticeable ; all the portion below the spiracles 

 darker green than the upper surface ; head green with black 

 mandibles and a black stripe on each side ; on the anal seg- 

 ment are two dark points. (Mrs. Battersby.) Mr. Buckler's 

 figures show also a yellowish-white spiracular stripe and the 

 spiracles and raised dots white. When young it is wholly dull 

 green. 



August to May or the beginning of June, hybernating when 

 about half an inch in length. On stinging nettle, blind 

 nettle [Lamium album), groundsel, hawkweed, dandelion, 

 hdney suckle, and in the spring it feeds readily on cow-parsley 

 (Chcerophyllum). In confinement it has also been known to 

 feed upon lettuce and plantain. If kept in a warm greenhouse, 

 and quite protected from cold, the young larvae may sometimes 

 be induced to feed up rapidly in the autumn and to produce 

 the imagines before wii-ter. 



