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thread ; subterminal line white at the costa, continued as 

 an excessively" fine thread which leaves white dots backed 

 with black-brown in the middle, and at the anal angle a 

 more conspicuous white double spot ; cilia shining reddish- 

 brown tipped with greJ^ Hind wings not very broad, rather 

 siuuousl}'- rounded behind, and grooved or wrinkled between 

 the nervures ; dull smoky-brown ; central spot minute, 

 black; dorsal area faintly but repeatedly barred with black- 

 brown ; along the hind margin from the anal angle are two 

 or three white dots ; cilia pale smoky-brown, intersected with 

 darker. Female similar. 



Underside of fore wings glossy pale smoky-brown ; discal 

 spot distinctlj' black ; costa broadly- tinged with smoky- 

 yellow ; immediately over the discal spot is a black costal 

 spot, and beyond it two more, each serving as the origin of 

 a faint transverse shady strijie ; cilia spotted with black 

 clouds. Hind wings smoky-white ; central spot black, 

 followed by two transverse smoky-brown stripes or lines of 

 dots ; cilia spotted with black. Body and legs whitish- 

 brown ; the tarsi blackened. 



Rather variable in the presence or absence of the very 

 slender transverse lines of the fore wings. 



On the wing in May and June and as a second generation 

 in August. 



Larva slender, tapering slightly towai'ds the head ; ground 

 colour yellowish-green, divisions of the segments yellow ; 

 dorsal line dark green ; subdorsal lines of the same colour 

 but very indistinct, occasionally studded at intervals with 

 black spots ; body thickly sprinkled with small yellowish- 

 green tubercles, and thinly strewed with short whitish 

 hairs. 



Or — When young uniform pale green, but after the last 

 change of skin it assumes a series of brown dorsal spots, united 

 by a central line of the same colour ; groundcolour then dirty 

 yellowish-green ; subdorsal lines dusky ; dorsal spots merged 



