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THE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Isle of Wight; 1880, Aldwick, near Bognor; 1882, 

 Bournemouth; 1886 or 1887, Heswall, Cheshire. 



L. batica is on the wing at the end of the summer 

 and in the autumn, and the eggs lie dormant during 

 the winter. In England the larvae might feed perhaps 

 inside the pods of the field pea and other leguminous 

 plants. 



The larva, of the usual Lyctzna shape, varies through 

 brownish, brownish-green, to bright green. There is a 

 dark medio-dorsal stripe, as well as a white lateral one 



LYC^NA B^TICA. 



below the yellow spiracles. The sides bear oblique lines, 

 dark above and paler below. 



The pupa is yellowish or .reddish, with brown dots, 

 which are especially numerous on the head. The spiracles 

 are black, and there is a dark line extending along the 

 posterior part of the front of the pupa. It is suspended 

 from the food-plant, and girt. 



The imago (Figs. 203 and 204) has the costal and 

 hind-margins of the fore-wings slightly convex ; the hind- 

 wings bear a long tail at the extremity of the nervure next 

 the anal angle. The colour of the upper surface (Fig. 

 203) is dull brown shot with blue, that colour being more 



