nymphalida:. 199 



aud North African form ; another, semi-transparent from thin 

 scaling, and tinged mth grey ; and one of the brown, sufiused, 

 specimens. I believe that this does not by any means 

 exhaust the list of singular forms found in this country ; we 

 certainly have, in some remote districts, more dull and obscurely 

 marked specimens, almost devoid of fulvous colouring — the 

 variety Mcrnpc, Dnp. of mountainous districts — but I am ill 

 provided with the more local northern and Irish forms. 



On the wing at the end of May and through June in the 

 south, but not usually before the first week of June in the 

 west, and somewhat later in June, and into July, in its more 

 northern range. 



Lauva velvety black, with minute, round, whitish, glisten- 

 ing warty spots numerously sprinkled over the dorsal surface, 

 as far as the sub-dorsal spines, and still more thickly aggre- 

 gated along the sides near the spiracles, forming a lateral 

 band of shining specks of a greyish appearance. Also nine 

 rows of short blunt-tipped black spines, with short, radiating, 

 pointed black hairs, the dorsal row standing a little in advance 

 of the rest. Ventral surface and pro-legs green. The head 

 black, with a green transverse streak above the upper lip. 

 (Buckler). 



On Scabiosa succisa, and, in confinement, on honeysuckle 

 (Lonicera pcridjiiicnimi). In 188-L, multitudes of larvas were 

 found at Church Stretton, Salop (doubtless on the scabious), 

 but all those which were sent thence to Mr. Frohawk fed up 

 on honeysuckle, and Mr. H. Goss records that his larvaa, 

 feeding freely on this plant, refused to touch the scabious. 

 Mrs. Battersby, however, remarks that larvas found by her in 

 Ireland would eat only Scabiosa succisa. Mr. Buckler states 

 that they feed eagerly in the hot sunshine. 



July and August, and, after hybernation, in April and the 

 beginning of May. 



Pupa purplish-grey, bluish-white, or creamy-white, with 

 paler wing-sheaths, the latter strongly marked and edged 



