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THE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



before, consisting in the yellower green ground-colour of 

 L. corydon, and the light brown hairs of the same larva 

 instead of the black ones of L. bellargus. 



226 



Male 



227 

 Female. 



LYC^ENA CORYDON. 



The pupa (Fig. 224) is without angles or keels. Several 

 larvae observed during the past summer (1892) did not 

 suspend themselves before assuming the chrysalis form, but 

 retired just beneath the surface of the ground, and, having 



