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the hind wings entirely dark brown, with the ocellated spots 

 barely visible. Amoncf a number reared from the egg last 

 year (1891), by Mr. F. W. Hawes. are three specimens, one 

 male and two female, in which the scales ai-e so thin that the 

 wings are semi-transparent, producing in these specimens an 

 extraordinary likeness to some of the species of the curious 

 mountain-frequenting genus (Ends. 



Usually double-brooded, the first brood in May and June, 

 the second late in July and in August ; but in very forward 

 warm springs the first brood is out early, and at Haslemere, 

 in 1863, 1 found it on the wing on April 2-5th. When such a 

 spring is followed by a hot sunny summer, a third brood is 

 sometimes produced, as in 1868, when a third emergence took 

 place early in September, of which the males were of a darker 

 colour than usual. 



Larva thickest in the middle, decreasing considerably to- 

 wards the head, which is rounded and wider than the second 

 segment, and also tapering to the tail, where are two decided 

 points projecting backward. Colour green, with the dorsal 

 line darker green, sub-dorsal line slightly paler, and spiracular 

 lino paler still. Head green, anal points tipped with pink. 

 Whole body set with short delicate bristles arising from 

 minute whitish raised dots. The Rev. J. Hellins says that 

 the newly hatched larva has the head globular and large, 

 half as wide again as the second segment, with the body 

 tapering from it; all the usual dots prominent and each 

 carrying a long curved bristle ; colour greyish with a brownish 

 irregular dorsal line, and two, more slender, lateral lines; 

 head shining pale olive with little black warts carrying black 

 bristles. At the first moult the colour is changed, and it 

 becomes green all over ; the head bright green ; the dorsal 

 line rather darker and edged with paler ; the spiracular line 

 yellowish green and the sub-dorsal region with alternately 

 darker and paler slender lines. The legs are pale brownish 

 or almost colourless, the pro-legs green. 



