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the wings of the right side above, wholly black ; another the 

 right fore wing, the left having faintly whitish cloudy spots, 

 and the hind wings two white spots in the middle ; it is also 

 smeared and clouded with grey and tawny beneath ; the 

 rest have the markings in spots or partial bands in different 

 stages of incompleteness. Mr. Briggs points out, from 

 specimens in his own collection, that the last markings to 

 disappear from the upper side are portions of the white band, 

 the remains of white markings lying always in its area. 

 Other blackened specimens are in the collections of Messrs. 

 S. J. Capper and Herbert Goss. Most of these are from the 

 New Forest, but some of the more striking are from Suffolk. 

 June (end) and July. 



Larva li inch long, somewhat cylindrical, bright green, 

 paler at the sides, the whole surface abundantly studded 

 with minute yellowish dots. Dorsal region having a double 

 row of rather long and tapering, abundantly branched, 

 spines, of which those on the thu-d, fourth, and sixth segments 

 are the longest. Spiracular line white, with a row of small 

 similar spines above and below it. Beneath is a crimson or 

 chocolate stripe along the base of the pro-legs. Head 

 greenish, with the mouth and a stripe on each side of the 

 face bright pink. The dorsal spines are yellowish, shading 

 into crimson at the tips ; the branches black. 



On honeysuckle {Lonicera pcridymemim). September to 

 May. 



When very young, reddish-brown. It grows but little in 

 the autumn ; and while still quite small prepares for hyber- 

 nation, for which purpose it partially bites off a leaf of the 

 honeysuckle, and securely fixes the partly detached portion 

 by its edges to the stem with silk. The partially cut off 

 leaf withers, and becomes of the same reddish-brown colour as 

 the larva, which creeps inside the tent thus formed and there 

 passes the winter in security. Early in April it bestirs itself, 

 casts a skin, and begins to feed, growing rapidly, and again 



