2 1 6 LEPID OP TERA . 



paler toward the dorsal margin, and having the costal margin 

 white, barred with black ; cilia white, spotted with black ; 

 hind wings very pretty, clear shining white, with a transverse 

 bar half-way across the middle, enclosing a black central 

 spot ; beyond this a slender, mnch curved and scalloped black 

 line, followed by a much broader black curved transverse 

 stripe, scalloped at its edges ; hind margin and cilia white 

 spotted with black ; body and legs blackish, the latter tufted 

 and barred in front with white, 



A singularly beautiful species and very constant in colour 

 and markings, except that in some specimens the black 

 sections of the central stripe of the fore wings are more 

 slender and rather more widely separated from each other, 

 and the black blotches on the third stripe are shaded with 

 purplish brown ; while in others small additional black 

 streaks present themselves in series, representing two more 

 transverse lines, in the green spaces ; these also have the 

 white spots more than usually tinged with pink. In Mr. 

 W. H. B. Fletcher's collection is a very large specimen having 

 all the black markings very strongly accentuated, the trans- 

 verse stripe nearest the hind margin unusually broad and 

 intensely black. This species has an extraordinary resem- 

 blance in colour and markings to an autumnal species, Cliarip- 

 tcra aprilina, but may be known by its black collar — that of 

 the latter being green — and by its more slender body. 



On the wing in June. 



Larva moderately stout, of nearly uniform width, but 

 tapering a little toward the anal segment, which is rounded 

 off at the back ; head broad, a little flattened in front, lobes 

 broadly rounded ; second and third segments rather short. 

 Head shining, black at the top of each lobe, light yellow, 

 thickly spotted with black below ; dorsal region blackish- 

 olive on the second and third segments, blue-black on the 

 fourth, fifth to twelfth deep velvety black, anal segment drab. 

 A large broad bright light yellow transverse blotch lies on the 



