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commonly having a jjaler shade, varying even to the ground 

 colour, in the middle portion ; discal spot a small round black 

 dot; bej-ond the central baud is a slender red-brown line, 

 quite parallel ; beyond this a red-brown cloud runs obliquely 

 into the apex of the wing; cilia shining yellow-brown. 

 Hind wings long, not very broad, rounded behind, pale smoky 

 yellowish-brown ; beyond the middle is a narrow curved stripe, 

 or line, of a deeper smoky shade, usually followed by a 

 shaded white or smoky- white line or stripe, sometimes broad; 

 hind-marginal area clouded with a more smoky tint ; cilia con- 

 colorous. Female very similar but rather larger and having 

 the fore wings a little more pointed ; hind wings decidedly 

 whiter ; body shorter, more pointed and a little thicker. 



Undersides of all the wings golden brown ; more ochreous 

 along the costa of the fore wings, and, just outside, a faintcen- 

 tral darker line on all the wings. Body and legs yellow-brown. 

 Variable in the ground colour to a whiter brown on the 

 one hand, and to pale purple-brown on the other; more 

 so in the depth and uuifui'mity of colour in the central 

 band, as already remarked upon, but seldom going to any 

 great extreme. Specimens from the north of Scotland are 

 often dark, but there is less local variation in this species 

 than might have been exjoected ; there is, however, in the 

 collection of Mr. S. J. Capper an extraordinary, and so far as 

 I know, unique, female specimen in which the basal purplish- 

 brown line is closely followed by a similar line or narrow 

 stripe, and this by the first line, which thus is placed far 

 nearer the base than usual ; while the second line is shifted 

 out from its usual position and forms a narrow purple-brown 

 stripe very near the hind margin and parallel therewith ; the 

 greater portion of the area of the fore wings is thus placed 

 as a central band, of great breadth, and of a very pale tawny- 

 brown ; its hind wings are almost white, but have also a 

 narrow brown stripe near the hind margin, which margin is 

 purple-brown. This specimen was taken near Liverpool 

 many years ago. 



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