340 PTEROPHORUS OOHRODACTYLUS. 



pair of the anterior legs, at their base, are two black 

 spots ; the ventral legs are tipped with dark brown. 



The pupa, which is attached by the tail to the stem, 

 or to a leaf, is half an inch in length, slender, with a 

 longish beak in front projecting at a slight angle 

 downwards from the head, pointed at the tail ; the 

 wing-covers are of moderate length, well developed, 

 and the ends of the leg-cases projecting free from the 

 abdomen ; its figure, in repose, is a little curved, so as 

 to be concave on the back. In colour it varies, some 

 examples being very pale greenish, others light 

 pinkish-grey, while others again are dark reddish- 

 grey ; in the pale green variety, the characteristic 

 darker markings, though partially present in deeper 

 tints of greenish, are more tenderly rendered than in 

 some of the greyish varieties, which are marked as 

 follows : the beak is white above, and black at the 

 sides ; on the thorax a blackish-brown dorsal stripe 

 widens and then narrows, and from thence passes 

 down of uniform width to the tail ; on the thorax it is 

 margined with a line of white ; the subdorsal line is 

 blackish-brown and rather interrupted ; between this 

 and the dorsal stripe, on each segment, are double 

 dark brown streaks a little divergent ; these are 

 strongly marked on the anterior segments, but more 

 faintly, by degrees, on the hinder ones ; at an interval 

 below the subdorsal another brown line occurs, rather 

 interrupted ; the lateral line is white, bordered beneath 

 by a stripe of black; the ventral surface of each seg- 

 ment has a broad central somewhat squarish mark of 

 light brownish-grey, and a fine subventral line of 

 similar tint much interrupted ; the wing-covers are 

 brownish-grey with whitish rays. 



The moths appeared at intervals from the 28th of 

 June to the 5th of July, 1875. (William Buckler, 

 28th January, 1876 ; E.M.M., March, 1876, XII, 233.) 



