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row of large round black spots ; and the hind, a marginal row 

 of equally large red spots, not ocellated nor papillate, but 

 otherwise like those of ordinary females. Two others are of 

 a peculiar, pale, olive fulvous colour, like that of some forms 

 of Ccenoni/mpha Datiiji, or, more accurately, like that of the 

 male of Triiplnj^a^ riinjnc, a Russian species. This sex seems 

 usually to be of a lighter brown colour on the coast of Dorset, 

 than in Kent or Gloucestershire. Under sides vary, as in 

 other species, in the elongation or coalescence of the black 

 spots, or in their forming wedges, or becoming obsolete. 

 One extremely dark male in Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection has 

 the under side clouded with fawn colour in an exquisite 

 manner ; and, as a climax to these strange aberrations, a 

 male belonging to Mr. Webb has the fore wings angulated, 

 something like those of Goncptcryx rliamni. 



Double-brooded, May-June, August-September. 



Larva f inch long ; onisciform ; head retractile ; seg- 

 ments deeply divided ; dorsal region with a row of humps 

 on each side of the central line. Head dai'k brown, body 

 deep full green, sprinkled with minute black dots, each bear- 

 ing a black bristle ; dorsal line hollowed, deeper green ; sub- 

 dorsal lines bright yellow, visible only on the humps ; spiracular 

 lines deep bright yellow, extending round the hinder extre- 

 mity ; spiracles conspicuous, round, and black ; beneath them 

 is a row of yellow streaks above the feet. On HippocrciriA 

 comosa. September to April, July. 



I'UPA thick, rounded in front ; dorsal region rounded, but 

 with a hollow at the waist and broad behind ; at first greenish- 

 brown, with the wing cases greenish, afterwards entirely 

 ochreous. In a slight cocoon, underground, or among the 

 food-plant on the surface. (Hellins.) 



Mr. Webb says that the larva is of a brighter green than 

 that of Cori/ilon, which it closely resembles, and its yellow 

 markings are of a more chromic colour. Messrs. Hellins and 



