386 LEPTDOPTERA. 



blackisli-brown. In some specimens in each shade of colour- 

 ing there is a darkening of the space between the orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata. There is nothing clearly defined in 

 these variations ; all melt imperceptibly into each other. In 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury's collection is a very curious specimen, 

 remarkably resembling one of the forms of A. ni/jr leans, and 

 hardly larger than that species. 



On the wing during the latter half of July and in 

 August. 



Larva cylindrical, almost uniform in thickness, but slightly 

 tapering toward the head, which is grey, mottled and streaked 

 on the lobes and face with dusky brown ; on the second 

 segment is a dull brown plate, with slight indications of 

 dorsal and subdorsal faint lines through it. General colour 

 yellowish-brown, with a slender, slightly paler dorsal line, 

 which passes through a dusky V-like streak at the end of 

 each segment after the fourth. At the commencement of 

 the fourth segment, on each side and close to the division, is 

 a subdorsal ochreous-yellow spot, which is repeated on the 

 fifth to the eleventh segments, and on them has an almost 

 confluent, yellow, wavy, curved streak extending along two- 

 thirds of the segment, the curves diminishing toward the 

 eleventh segment ; on the twelfth the lines are straight and 

 slightly converging, and are margined above with dusk}^- 

 brown wedge-shaped streaks, which point forward ; on the 

 previous segments the yellow curved streaks are edged more 

 faintly with dusky brown. Sides and under surface, with the 

 legs, brownish-grey ; spiracles minute, dirty white, in a 

 dusky blotch from which an oblique dusky streak points 

 forward ; beneath is a pale grey spiracular line. Anal seg- 

 ment plain dingy brown. 



Another variety has the dorsal region ochreous-brown, but 

 behind the fourth segment the paler dorsal line is only 

 visible at the divisions ; the V-like streaks are longer and 

 darker ; the yellow spots are separated from the yellow 



