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tinctly deeper green, and the spiracular line forming a still 

 darker stripe, bordered below with white; the divisions of 

 the segments also deeper green ; spiracles and raised dots 

 white ; legs and prolegs green. 



Or, green with broader dorsal and subdorsal stripes dull 

 red, or rich bright purple-red, and short streaks of the same 

 upon the spiracular stripe, which is edged below with 

 yellowish-white. 



Or, rich yellow clouded with pinkish-red, the dorsal and 

 subdorsal stripes darker red, and the undersurface and legs 

 green. 



Or, reddish-brown, the stripes darker and dashed with 

 black-brown, and the under portions green. 



Or almost any other dorsal combination of green, grey- 

 green, brownish-pink, light brown, purple, purple-grey and 

 yellow. A wonderfully variable larva ! Apparently in some 

 degree affected in colour by that of the blossoms upon which 

 it may chance to be feeding. 



May or June to August, and a partial second generation in 

 September and October ; on restharrow {Ononis arvensis and 

 0. spinosa), henbane {Hyoscyamus niger), Pyrethrum inodo- 

 rum and P. maritime/,, Arenaria rubra, Senecio, Salvia, even 

 Ulex (furze), Calendula (common garden marigold), Erodium 

 (stork's-bill), and Datura stramonium (thorn-apple) ; feeding 

 on leaves, blossoms, and seed-capsules. 



Pupa slender, brown ; in a slight cocoon in the earth. 

 Not further described. A portion produce the moths in the 

 same autumn, others lie through the winter, and some few 

 through one or more succeeding winters. 



The moth is, in this country, more particularly attached to 

 the southern coast. It sits by day in fields, especially clover 

 fields, or among herbage on sandhills, and is readily dis- 

 turbed, flying for a short distance and settling again, and 

 most likely flies voluntarily to flowers when the sun is hot, 

 indeed there is a record of its capture when so attracted by 



