66 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Larva green or olive, or sometimes reddish-brown, with a 

 dark dorsal stripe ; spiracles yellow ; above them an oblique 

 pale line on each segment ; below them a white lateral stripe. 



(Lang.) 

 On the green seeds of common pea {Phum sativum), 

 Colutea arhorescens, and other LeguminosEe. June and July. 



(Kirby.) 



Pupa reddish-yellow, dotted with brown, and with black 

 spiracles (Lang). 



There is no record of the finding of the larva or pupa in 

 this country. The first record of the occurrence of the 

 imago is by the late Mr. E. Newman in The Zoologist, 1859, 

 of a specimen taken by Mr. McArthur on the chalk downs 

 near Brighton. Mr. Newman stated that it had at the same 

 time occurred in profusion in the North of Fi-auce and in the 

 Channel Isles. In the same year, and about the same date, 

 a specimen was recorded by Mr. Stainton as having been 

 taken at Christchurch by Captain Albert de Latour. It was 

 flying round Everlasting pea in his garden. 



In Tlie Zoologist for 1863 Mr. Newman says : "I have 

 seen a second specimen, taken near Brighton, of the authen- 

 ticity of which I have not a shadow of doubt.'" 



Another is recorded in Tlic Entomologist for 1879, by 

 Mr. C. D. Suell, as having been taken on August 23rd, 1 879, 

 at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. This specimen is confirmed 

 by Mr. J. Jenner Weir. 



In Tltc Entomologist for 1880 Mr. H. E. Durham writes : 

 " On September 12th, while at Aldwick, near Bognor, Sussex, 

 I went into the garden shortly after breakfast, and saw a 

 specimen of this rare butterfly at rest on a geranium. 

 Having obtained my net I succeeded in taking it." 



In the same journal for 1882 Mr. W. McRae records the 

 capture of a specimen by Miss Staples near the Bournemouth 

 West railway station on October 2nd, 1882. Also that the 

 lady, after making a drawing of the specimen, presented it 



