loo LEPIDOPTERA. 



to purple-red at the apex and hind margin ; browner drab 

 with the whole surface tinged with red; or grey-brown with 

 a reddish tinge, most strongly expressed at the margins — a 

 curious colour. A local tendency toward creamy colouring is 

 noticed in Salop, and Mr. F. 0. Woodforde has specimens 

 taken by himself near Market Drayton, which are of a 

 most exquisite, smooth, creamy-ochreous. In Mr. W. H. B 

 Fletcher's collection is a specimen having the right wing 

 purple-red and the left buff, it was obtained in Perthshire ; 

 another taken in the New Forest, Hants, of a pale reddish- 

 grey, has the subterminal line sharply edged inside with 

 dark brown ; and specimens from Stornoway are of a very 

 deep dark red. In Mr. R. Adkin's collection is an example 

 from Scotland of the pale drab colour, but with the costa 

 red, almost rosy, and a shading of the same over the costal 

 region. 



On the wing in August. 



Larva stout, rounded, compressed at the incisions of the 

 segments and slightly tapering in front ; head rounded and 

 shining, reddish-brown with a darker brown streak on the 

 inside of each lobe ; body almost unicolorous, pale dull 

 reddish or cinnamon -brown minutely dusted with grey, usual 

 raised dorsal spots very small, whitish and inconspicuous ; 

 spiracular stripe broad, whitish, containing a pink shade ; 

 lateral spots blackish ; under surface paler than the ground 

 colour, with a greenish tinge ; legs shining reddish-brown. 

 When young, dull pale green dusted with grey ; spiracular 

 stripe white ; head pale reddish-brown (C. Fenn). 



A variety figured by Mr. Buckler is of a paler brown with 

 double slender dorsal and subdorsal lines and the raised dots 

 all black ; another, full-grown, is of a rich green with a paler 

 dorsal line. 



September to May on heather and sallow, feeding at night, 

 concealing itself by day. 



Pupa smooth and extremely glossy, red-brown, edges of 



