414 MR. BUTLER ON CANDAHAR LEPIDOPTERA. [May 4, 



me as being smaller than the English Smerinthus ocellatus ; and all 

 emerged from the pupa state the same year, viz. in June, July, and 

 August. The fact that some were only three weeks while others were 

 over two months may lead to a suspicion that this was not natural, 

 though all were under exactly the same conditions." 



"Larva 114. About 2|" long, at rest. Skin rough; head 

 triangular. 



" General colour green, covered with minute white dots and seven 

 long pale-yellow oblique lateral bands. (The ground-colour is the same 

 as the willow-leaves ou which the larva feeds, the yellow stripes the 

 same as the leaf-stalks, and the head and true legs like the younger 

 branches.) Spiracles red or dark orange with white line as centre ; 

 head green, triangular ; face green, with a broad stripe of yellow or 

 pale orange on each side ; horn rough, blue, greenish at tip, long, 

 tapering and curved ; front legs same colour as stripes on the face. 

 Candahar, beginning and middle of June. Turns brown on the back 

 when about to change. 



"Pupa. Subterranean, from 3 to 8 weeks in this state." 



LlTHOSIID^. 



27. Deiopeia pulchella. 



Tinea pulchella, Linuseus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884. no. 349. 

 " Middle of Juue." 



Toxocampid.e. 



28. Apopestes phantasma. 



Spintherops phantasma, Eversmann, Bull. Mosc. 1843, p. 54f). 



•' About a dozen reared from the larva, which appears to be not 

 uncommon here, though I do not remember having found it any- 

 where else ; the moth appeared at the end of May ; the sexes appear 

 to be alike. The larva was found on a vetch, upright with a thick 

 stem and whitish soft downy leaves ; the plant is very common about 

 Kokeran." 



"Larva 109. About 2" 6'" long, with 16 legs, but loops when 

 crawling; skin soft and smooth, without hairs ; anterior segments 

 slightly attenuated. 



•' Ground-colour pale greenish opaque white, extending to the 

 spiracular line : spiracular band yellow, whitish at its lower margin, 

 and bounded on its upper margin by a black line, which is broken 

 on each segment into three or four black dots ; above this is a dis- 

 tinct black line and, separated from it by a band of the ground- 

 colour, a broken subdorsal line of small black dots and dashes; 

 below ihe spiracular band is a broad black band divided longitudi- 

 nally by two white lines, which latter are interrupted by the legs and 

 form two white rings on each segment above the feet ; a pale green 

 band down the belly between the feet ; on the outside of each leg 

 near the foot is a black figure resembling the letter G ; head pale 

 whitish green, shiny, with two transverse rows of black spots, the 

 front ones being the smaller; spiracles apparently black. Candahar, 

 end of April, on an upright vetch, 3 feet high, with yellow flowers. 



