34 Lloyd's natural history. 



The fore-wings are divided into two areas across the centre 

 of the wings by a straight white line passing between the 

 orbicular and the reniform stigmata. The inner area is some- 

 times brownish and sometimes reddish, but is always darker 



The Cloaked, Flounced, and Pale Red Minors. 



than the outer area. In this area are the first transverse line 

 and the orbicular stigma, both of which are, however, obscured 

 by the ground-colour. The reniform stigma is placed in the 

 paler area, which extends as far as the yellowish sub-marginal 

 line, near the fringes. It is reddish or brownish-white and 

 suffused, and the reniform stigma appears more or less white. 

 Beyond the sub-marginal line the ground-colour is blackish- 

 brown. The fringes are streaked alternately with darker and 

 lighter. The hind-wings are ashy-grey, darker towards the 

 hind margins, and sometimes reddish-grey, with rather paler 

 fringes. 



We have figured the type and the two varieties, O. fert/iifialis 

 (the Flounced Minor) and O. rufuncula (the Plain Red Minor) 

 of Haworth and Stephens, both of which are found in Britain. 



