62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



hover for a considerable time, taking a sip here and there, 

 and little disturbed even by the collector's lantern. 



Common through the southern portion of England, to 

 Cambridgeshire, and in Wales, though scarce in the midland 

 districts ; fairly common in Herefordshire, Cheshire, and 

 Lancashire, and occurring, though more sparingly, in various 

 parts of Yorkshire. In Scotland it is found in the Clyde 

 district and on the east coast further north towards Aberdeen. 

 In Ireland it has been found commonly in the County Wick- 

 low, and is plentiful in Galway and Kerry ; has been taken 

 at Cavan, and appears to be pretty generally distributed. 

 In Europe it is very widely spread, though apparently not 

 in the extreme north or south ; and is found in Armenia, 

 Siberia, and other parts of northern and western Asia. Also 

 apparently in India, though the names of macromera and 

 Mdcrna have been given to the hardly differing specimens 

 brought from that country ; and in Japan, though the larva 

 of the form, named Leivisii, found there, is said to be some- 

 what different. 



4, C. nerii, Z. Expanse 4| inches. 



Fore wings richly blotched and shaded with velvety green, 

 with a broad pink band and a whitish triangle ; hind wings 

 grey-brown with a whitish line ; body marbled with green. 



Antenme pale brown, the pectinations, in the male, con- 

 sisting of tufts of vcri/ short bristles. Head green, with 

 extremely large brown eyes. Thorax very robust, rich 

 green, with a whitish bar across the front, and a whitish 

 stripe down each side, meeting a slender oblique whitish 

 line from the middle of the back of the thorax, thus dividing 

 its area into three triangles. Abdomen very stout at the 

 base, gently rounded to past the middle, then tapering 

 rapidly off to a blunt point ; greyish green, with a black bar 

 edged with white at the base of the dorsal surface, and a 

 white line edging several of the segments, on the sides of 

 which are also oblique whitish stripes, and, on the two last, 



