1 66 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



our plate represent both surfaces of the male. We add wood- 

 cuts of the under side of the female and of the upper side of the 

 rare variety A. iole (Denis), in which the white band on the 

 hind-wings is absent. 



Upper side ot the Variety (A. iole). 



The larva is green, with several oblique yellow lines, and 

 with two horns on the head tipped with red, and with a yellow 

 stripe down the outer side. It feeds on sallow, and sometimes 

 on aspen and poplar, and may be looked for in spring. 



The pupa is likewise of a pale green, with a bifid head. 



GENUS THALEROPIS. 



Thaleropis, Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur., p. 17 (1871); Schatz, 

 Exot. Schmett, ii., p. 166 (1888). 



This genus was founded to receive a moderate-sized, but 

 very handsome, Butterfly from Asia Minor, which was originally 

 described by Eversmann as a Vanessa^ and shortly afterwards, 

 by Herrich-Schaffer, as an Apatura. The discovery of the 



