430 MR. HARDY ON DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME 
of the same size as those on the head placed anteriorly, and, pos- 
teriorly, two other larger and remote; the latter with a trans- 
verse sunk line before its apex, sometimes fuscous, and two, one 
on each side of the base, triangular black patches, which, at their 
origin, enter below the thorax, and shine dimly through ; elytra 
glossy, somewhat greenish white near the base, but hyaline pos- 
teriorly, a patch towards the base, two ragged fascia, in some 
parts but faintly indicated, that cross them, of which the first 
trends obliquely forward to the costa on each side, but the second 
after passing across the back is retroverted, being continued in a 
narrower oblique branch to the margin, faint fuscous brown, 
the apices of the fascize rather more deeply stained ; a line near 
the base of the costa, the suture near the apex, and the prongs of 
a furcate nervure, fuscous ; abdomen above black, a widish lateral 
band, and the posterior edges of the segments narrowly, yellow ; 
beneath yellow, with black triangles at the bases of all the seg- 
ments, except the terminal one, which is yellow with a geminated 
triangular or linear spot at its base; breast shining black, or 
somewhat lilac, the margins of its sections freckled or edged, and 
the sides bordered with yellow ; legs white, tarsal claws black. 
Length 2; expansion of wings 33 lines. 
Var Males : middle compartment of the face and its apex 
bordered with dark, the central part stained and rudimentally 
barred with light, fuscous ; a large dark patch below the eyes, 
the eyes themselves, the base of the fore coxe, a streak along all 
the femora, and the hinder tibia, excepting the spines, a simi- 
circular patch on the thorax, a transverse line before the apex of 
the scutellum, and a minute spot on the apex, fuscous of variable 
intensity and hue; wings with some of the nervures nigrescent 
near the apex; breast and belly black, excepting in the latter 
some narrow white lines on the posterior edges of the segments, 
a series of yellow specks along the lateral margins. In other 
respects conformable to the type. 
Beat out of furze, in Berwickshire, in March. 
Two specimens beat out ofa willow, on the Derwent, in August. 
