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dcntatcd one ; the subtcrminal line is strongly dentated, and filled up with blackish in cells 4 

 and 5 ; the space behind is greenish or yellowish. Expands from i to i^ inches. Common in 

 Central Europe in June and July. The larva is stone-colour, reddish in the incisions, with a 

 darker line on the sides, and dark spots on the back. It feeds on low plants in spring. 



23. L. ISIalvata (Ramb.). — Fore -wings reddish-brown, with the central area brown, more or 

 less waved inside, and with a very prominent angle outside ; it is bordered with white on both 

 sides, and traversed by several blackish waved parallel lines. The base is also dark brown, and 

 the rest of the surface of the wings is traversed by waved broivn lines. The subterminal line is 

 festooned, white, and more or less distinct ; fringes concolorous, and preceded by a row of black 

 dots ; hind-wings shining reddish-grey, with traces of two waved blackish lines. Expands about 

 i:^ inches. Inhabits South France, Spain, and Algeria in September. It is a very variable 

 species, behig sometimes white, brown, or fulvous. The larva is green when young, and pale or 

 dark brown when older, with a small bifid prominence on the nth and 12th segments. It 

 feeds on different species of lavender and mallow. 



24. L. Basoclicsiata (Dup.). — Fore-wings reddish-brown, with three well-marked black transverse 

 lines, the two nearest the base curved, and separated by a paler space ; the 3rd line is much 

 waved, and bordered on the inside by a black spot at the end of the cell ; on the outside it 

 is finely bounded with whitish, and followed by two double brown streaks. The subterminal 

 line is fine, white, dentated, and ill-defined, with two bluish-black spots on the inside, opposite 

 the black spot of the 2nd line. The central and basal areas are traversed by several other 

 lines, and there is a small black discoidal spot on the former. Fringes brown, preceded by a 

 black festooned line ; hind-wings brownish-grey, traversed by five or six clouded lines. Expands 

 about I inch. Common in South France and Spain. The larva is light brown, shaded with 

 brownish on the sides, and with a slender brown line on the back, and flesh-coloured subdorsal 

 lines washed with )-ellowish. It feeds on the young stalks of Rubia pcregrina ; and there is a 

 succession of broods throughout the year. (Z. Corollaria, Herr.-Schiiff., from South-Eastern 

 Europe and Western Asia, is grey, with a broad brown central area bordered and intersected 

 with black, on which stands a dark oblong discal dash, and with a pale grey or reddish-brown 

 shade, and a white dentated submarginal line, spotted outside with blackish in front ; basal area 

 blackish.) 



25. L. Permixtaria (Herr.-Schaff.). — Wings white, fringes slightly spotted, fore-wings with 

 the tip rather long, and the hind margin nearly straight, with a broad basal area varied 

 with black, brown, and bluish-grey, extending above as far as the central dot, but narrower 

 towards the inner margin. The white dentated subterminal line intersects the dark border 

 (which is brown before it, and bluish-grey behind), and is interrupted between nervures 2 and 3. 

 Between the two brown spaces runs a slender double black dentated line, spotted on the 

 nervures. Hind-wings with several fine black incomplete lines, a double light brown line, and 

 a rather ill-defined bluish-grey border, interrupted between nervures 2 and 3. Inhabits Andalusia, 

 South-Eastern Europe, and Western Asia. 



*26. L. Galtata (W. V.). — Fore-wings whitish at the base, and waved with pale brown, the 

 central area iron-grey on the inside, and brownish on the outside, with double projections ; the 

 hinder double band white and unequally divided, so that the hinder half is broader, the marginal 

 area varied v/ith bluish-grey and pale brown, and rusty-brown in cells 4 and 5. Hind-wings 

 whitish, with rather indistinct grey lines. Expands from i to i^ inches. Common in a great 

 part of Europe, North Africa, and Northern and Western Asia, from June to August. The 

 larva is pale yellowish-grey, with three dark lines on the back, and a flesh-coloured stripe on 



