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©chraceous yellow, sparsely powdered with black scales ; transverse, post- 

 discal, macular band reddish-brown and broad as in the forewing. Antennse, 

 head, thorax and abdomen as in female Form 2 oifausta. Expanse 52-58 mm. 

 The males of C. fausta and, therefore, of course, also of tripuncta can at 

 once be distinguished from their females by having, in addition to the sex- 

 mark of specialized scales and darker colouring, the dorsal margin of fore- 

 wing curved convexly, the curve forming a considerable lappet over the 

 subcostal area of the hindwing. In the female this dorsal margin is nearly 

 quite straight. (K. Bernhardt in Journal B. N. H. S., Vol. XIX, Part 1, 

 published 15th April 1909.) 



Effff. — The egg is of the usual short-necked bottle shape, the narrow top 

 part rather exceptionally short ; with 18 meridional ridges meeting in a 

 thickened ring round the top, their extremities not showing at all as teeth 

 and hardly a single pair anastomosed. The surface throughout finely 

 transversely striated and shining. The colour white when laid, turning 

 yellowish shortly afterwards with three blood-red, rather irregular bands 

 round it, the first some way above the base, the second about the middle, the 

 third just before the narrowing commences. L: 0-7mm ; B: 0'35mm. 

 Laid anywhere on a leaf and generally on an old one ; or on a stalk, twig, &c. 

 Larva — [Vide marginal figure). — The larva is of the type of that of Colotis 



eucharis except that it has 

 not got the difi'erentiated 

 tubercles (in point of size) 

 found in that species ; the 

 covering of hairs is far 

 ^ 5 more like that obtaining 



in Colotis danm, i.e., it is rather denser than in eucharis and the main 

 tubercle hairs are not much longer than the rest. It difi'ers from the larva 

 of this latter species however in the markings, having much more lateral, 

 light pinkish-brown patching than the patched larvae of that ever have. It 

 is also of course larger when full-grown. The shape is that of C. eucharis 

 as said, but segment 13 is perhaps longer here, and the anal segment 

 certainly is longer and it is perhaps also more concavely emarginate (though, 

 even so, only shallowly) at extremity, the emargination affecting the whole 

 terminal margin ; the segment is also perhaps not quite so thickened at ex- 

 tremity. The head is round, not large, though nearly as broad as segment 

 2 the straight front margin of which slightly infringes on the vertex ; the 

 clypeus is large and triangular, the false clypeus arching over, and including 

 the apex (the sides of true clypeus quite straight) ; the surface of the head 

 is covered with quite short, dark-brown, semi-appressed hairs but in no way 

 so closely as to hide the surface, all pointing downwards and the tubercles 

 (white) they rise from are hardly visible even with the lens they are so 

 minute ; otherwise the surface is smooth and hardly shiny ; the labrum is 

 longitudinally (to body-length) corrugate, green ; the ligula large as usual, 

 pinkish ; the antennal basal joint is green, shiny, the second joint brownish; 

 the mandibles dark at ends; the eyes glassy, very slightly stained 

 with brown. Spiracles are oval, the centres green surrounded by a some- 

 what broad, hardly raised, brown margin ; those of segments 11 and 12 (and 

 not 2) larger than the rest as in the larva of Colotis dance. The surface of 

 body is transversely lined on each segment by 6 parallel lines, the first being 

 some distance behind the anterior margin each time, the intervals between 

 all others being equal ; the whole surface covered somewhat closely by very 

 short, fine, whitish hairs (except on segment 2 where they are rather dark) 

 rising from barely visible, minute, white tubercles ; the main subdorsal, 

 dorsolateral and supraspiracular one on each segment being about twice the 

 length of these (still very short therefore), dark, rather thicker with the 



