38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the basal portion broadly deep black, a slender black trans- 

 verse band parallel with the hind margin, a large white space 

 above the anal angle, and the hind margin beyond the black 

 band, yellowish or pinkish ; cilia white. Female similar, 

 slightly larger and stouter. Underside dull rosy with the 

 pear-shaped blotch of the fore wings blackish and the 

 remaining markings indicated by brownish clouds ; thorax 

 rosy ; abdomen faintly rosy with white bars. 



Hardly variable except in the presence or absence of olive- 

 brown clouding along the costal margin and of the second 

 blotch ; but in warm climates the ground colour is deeper 

 rosy-grey, or the dark atoms are larger, and the dark mark- 

 ings of a deeper olive. 



On the wing in June and July, and has been taken in 

 September. 



Larva, when full grown, 3 to Z\ inches long. Plump, 

 cylindrical, but tapering considerably from the fourth segment 

 to the head, which is rather small, and rounded. Each 

 segment, from the fifth to the twelfth, is so deeply cut by 

 transverse wrinkles as to appear divided into seven rings, 

 that in front being much the broadest. On the twelfth 

 segment is a rough, blunt-tipped horn, curving a little back- 

 wards. Skin smooth and shining ; anal prolegs larger than 

 the ventral and rather squared. Head crimson, with the 

 mouth yellow edged with black. General colour of the body 

 bronzy-green or blackish-bronze, varying in tone with every 

 individual, but consisting of rows of minute bronze dots with 

 the interstices paler. Dorsal stripe crimson, widening on 

 the second segment, thence narrow throughout to the anal 

 flap which is also brilliant crimson ; dorsal horn glistening, 

 red, with the tip black ; subspiracular stripe variable, bright 

 crimson, purplish-red, or yellowish, — broad, sometimes inter- 

 rupted, at others spreading down over the whole subspiracular 

 surface to the sides of the prolegs ; between the dorsal stripe 

 and this broad subspiracular stripe is, on the front sub- 



