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5. T. rubi, Z. — Expanse, i to i^ inch. Brown above, 

 green beneath ; hind wings with three slight projections. 



Brown, with a golden gloss ; fore wings of the male often 

 having an oblong whitish spot at the end of the discal cell. 

 Hind wings in both sexes with three short projections or 

 points — not tails. Under side green, with a golden flush, 

 and a slender transverse silvery-white line across the middle 

 of the wings, not always visible on the fore wings, and some- 

 times reduced to a few dots on the hind. Cilia brown. 



Slightly variable in the depth of colour on the upper side, 

 which occasionally is rather pale, and has even been found 

 shaded with whitish. A specimen recorded by Mr. Bernard 

 Piffard in the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine had an 

 irregular pale band across the fore wings. Specimens from 

 the north of England have the white line on the under side 

 unusually pronounced. 

 May and June. 



Larva onisciform, slightly velvety, of a beautiful light green, 

 with yellowish, oblique, incised stripe.s on the sides, and the 

 dorsal line darker green. On Genista tinctoria, G. anglica, 

 and Cytisus scoparins, feeding on the leaves, buds, or 

 blossoms. The Rev. J. Hellins found it also on (/lex nanus, 

 and Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, on being supplied with a sack-full 

 of Vaccinium vitis-idcea from Scotland, was surprised to find 

 among it larvae of this species, which he fed up on this un- 

 expected food plant. It is also said by many authors to feed 

 upon the flowers or buds of bramble, but this appears to be 

 uncertain. "VVheu full fed it forces itself either into the thick 

 masses of its food plant or down to the surface of the ground, 

 or even among roots, and there assumes the pupa state with- 

 out attachment of any kind. 



June and July. 



Pupa short and blunt, at first green, but changing to a 

 dull purplish-brown, very thickly covered with minute 

 bristles. It has a curious power of producing a creaking or 



