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witli dark browu : the basal line is indicated by a faint white 

 costal cloud, and three pairs of more distinct white dots 

 suggest the origins of the first, central, and second lines 

 respectively, but these Hues can only be traced by considera- 

 tion of the white dusting on the nervures ; subtermiual line 

 hardly indicated, except that it forms a distinct white spot 

 above the anal angle ; discal spot absent : extreme hind 

 margin edged by a cloudy white line ; cilia shining pale 

 browu clouded with darker and showing a white dash near 

 the white dot of the anal angle. Hind wings rather small, 

 rounded behind ; grey-brown, crossed b}' several hardly per- 

 ceptibly whiter lines, but edged behind bj^ a less obscure 

 white line ; cilia shining pale grey-brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoke-colour; costa 

 edged with dark brown, but spotted for two-thirds of its 

 length with small yellow-white clouds ; nervures beyond the 

 middle dusted with darker colour. Hind wings whitish- 

 brown, crossed by numei'ous brown lines, those beyond the 

 middle being the most conspicuous ; hind marginal area 

 clouded with dark brown ; central spot faintly brown. Body 

 and legs whitish-brown ; tarsi darker. 



Apparently not variable. 



On the wing at the end of May and through June, some- 

 times into July or even August; moreover specimens of a 

 partial second generation are sometimes met with in the 

 latter month and in September. 



Larva long, very slender, and tapering extremely in front; 

 ground colour dull pale yellowish-green ; dorsal line pale 

 olive, connecting a series of very distinct, well defined, urn- 

 shaped blotches of the same colour, which become conHnent 

 on the thoracic and anal segments ; subdorsal and spiraeular 

 lines pale olive, sinuous, distinct, and ratlier broad ; uuder- 

 surface without markings ; skin rugose, freely studded with 

 short whitish hairs, (liev. H. H. Crewe.) 



June and July, also occasionally in a partial second gene- 



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