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rounded beliiud. dusky white, thickly dusted with round 

 brown atoms which become black, nud larger, on the dorsal 

 half of the wing, and are there sprinkled over brown 

 clouding broken up by whitish transverse shades ; hind 

 margin edged with black streaks ; cilia grey -brown. Female 

 a little lai'ger and stouter, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings ashy-brown, minutely 

 stipjjled all over with faint cross lines of grey scales ; 

 discal spot black ; costal and hind margins rather shaded 

 with light brown. Hind wings dusky white, dusted with 

 brown ; central spot black ; beyond the middle are two 

 curved smoky-brown transverse lines. Body and legs 

 whitish-brown, with smoky clouding on the tarsi. 



On the wing in .June, Jul}-, and the beginning of August. 



Larva stout and rather short, tapering forwards from the 

 ninth segment, and very slightly behind, flattened beneath 

 and transversely wrinkled ; head small, rounded, green or 

 pale brown ; body dull green, ochreous, or pale brown, with 

 a broad grey dorsal chain-jaattern ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines grey ; spiracular lines paler. Great variation occurs in 

 the intensity of the grey markings, especially in the green 

 larvEe. (Chas. I'^enn.) 



August and September on the flowers and seeds of 

 Chcnopodium album, C. oliduin, Atrlplcc patula, and other 

 species of goosefoot and orache ; when young upon the buds, 

 remaining among them during the day but feeding at night, 

 when more nearly full-grown however often hiding under 

 the lowest leaves by day. 



Plta rather stout, wing-covers thickened, moderately 

 glossy, but covered with minute confused wrinkling in 

 irregular lines, rather than sculpture; limb and antenna- 

 cases closely packed and very similarly roughened ; dorsal 

 shield thickly covered with line pitting, as also on the broad 

 anterior portions of the dorsal and abdominal segments ; 

 hinder edges of these ridged and having each a narrow smooth 



