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Show 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 on 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, lone;, tapering and curved; front legs same colour as stripes on the face. Candahar, beginning and middle of June. Turns brown ou the back when about to change. "Pupa. Subterranean, from 3 to 8 weeks iu this state." LITHOSIID^E. 27. DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA. Tinea pulchella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884. no. 349. " Middle of June." TOXOCAMPID.E. 28. APOPESTES PHANTASMA. Spintherops phantasma, Eversmann, Bull. Mosc. 1813, p. 546. " About a dozen reared from the larva, which appears to be not uncommon here, though I do not remember having found it anywhere 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 Rokeran." "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 distinct black line and, separated from it by a band of the groundcolour, a broken subdorsal line of small black dots and dashes; below the spiracular band is a broad black band divided longitudinally 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. |
