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rouuded ; colour whitish-brown, often with faint reddish- 

 browu shading, but sometimes nearly white ; basal line black, 

 slender, rather angulated ; first line connected with it by a 

 black streak along the median nervure, black, very deeply 

 angnlated, almost hooked in the middle ; this is closely 

 followed by a narrow shading of light brown, and this by 

 two clouded black lines, almost forming a narrow central 

 band, and partly filled iu with blackish clouding ; close outside 

 these is the discal spot, deep black and rather elongated ; 

 second line an angulated smoky-black shade emphasised by 

 a minute black wedge on every nervure ; of these wedges 

 two, below the middle of the wing, are long, and point to 

 two similar black streaks in the central band ; hind marginal 

 region light brown, dotted with black clouds and divided by 

 a very irregular white subterminal line ; cilia pale brown, 

 dashed with smoky-black. Hind wings a little squared, and 

 sinuous behind, dusky white ; central spot dull black ; 

 followed by a short row of black wedges lying in brown 

 shading ; toward the hind mai'gin is a more complete row of 

 dull black streaks, lying in brown clouding, and followed by 

 whitish spots ; extreme margin edged with short black 

 streaks ; cilia dusky white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings silky brownish-white, tinged 

 along the costa with yellow-brown, and there also faintly 

 but repeatedly barred with smoky-brown ; discal spot black ; 

 beyond it are two transverse smoky-brown lines. Hind 

 wings duskj'-white, shining ; central spot black ; followed by 

 two transverse curved smoky-brown lines ; cilia shaded to 

 the tips with smoky-black. Body and legs pale brown. 



Usually oul}^ varying a little in the distinctness of the 

 markings, and in the degree of reddish-brown tint shading 

 the ground colour ; but the hawthorn-fi-equenting race shows 

 a decided tendency to white ground colour with more grey- 

 brown markings, and to absence of any reddish-brown 

 clouding. 



On the wing in May and the beginning of -June. 



