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margin is an interrupted wliitish streak. This commences near the base, 

 and is broken by the ground colour just before the middle ; from this point 

 some whitish scales on the disk of the wing form a connection with a large 

 whitish blotch on the middle of the costa; beyond the middle a narrow 

 whitish band runs from the costa to inner margin, parallel with the hind 

 margin ; the inner edge of this band is broadly margined with a darker 

 shade of the ground colour. Fringes whitish, dark brown at the base, and 

 variegated with brown at the tips, angles, and inner margins of both 

 digits ; tip of outer digit acute, inner obtuse. Hind wing, first and second 

 feathers lustrous golden brown ; third feather much shorter than the other 

 two, dark brown, broadly whitish along its inner margin ; fringes lustrous 

 golden brown, with some whitish scales at the tip. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen colour of fore wing, the latter variegated with whitish; abdominal 

 juncture whitish. Legs white, variegated at the joints with brown ; spines 

 white. July. 



Larva. — Length, 5-6 lines, slightly attenuated posteriorly, and from 

 the .5th to 2nd segment anteriorly. Head dingy ochreous, tinged witli 

 green and freckled with pale brown ; the crown spotted with dark brown ; 

 mandibles pale reddish brown, tipped with darker; a large black spot on 

 each cheek. Ground colour yellowish green ; dorsal line reddish violet, 

 most distinct on the 2nd to 6th segments, and again on the llth to 13th 

 segments. Tubercles, four rows (four on each segment) of small whitish 

 warts, each emitting a single whitish hair ; subdorsal, one on each segment, 

 with a whitish hair ; spiracular, one on each segment, from which spring 

 two diverging whitish hairs. Spiracles reddish brown, with whitish outer 

 margins. Prolegs blackish ; anal claspers semitransparent, greenish, tipped 

 with brown. The whole body is thickly studded with short whitish bristles. 

 Food, Rosa. It usually bores a hole through the upper portion of a flower- 

 bud, and feeds on the folded petals. This habit is shown on the plate, 

 fig. 3 a. Sometimes the larva may be found feeding on the stamens of a 

 flower, the petals of which are fastened together by their outer edges with 

 silken threads. When feeding on flower-buds the larva conceals itself by 

 drawing down and securing a leaf to the bud. June. 



Pupa. — Dingy green, with a darker dorsal line, strongly suffused with 

 rose-colour or violet. Hairs as in the larva. The paler wing-cases stand 

 out prominently from the thorax, thus giving the pupa a swollen appearance 

 at this point. Attached by the anal segment to the flower-stem just below 

 the ovary, and protected by a slight network of silk, which unites a leaf 

 with tlie flower-bud. The pupa stands erect, and in this position bears a 

 superficial resemblance to a stunted rose-bud. 



Plate L, fig. 3, Cnainidophorus rhododactylus ; 8a, larva feeding; 

 3 h, larva enlarged ; 3 c, pupa in position ; 3 d, pupa enlarged ; 3 e, dog-rose 

 [Rosa can ilia). 



