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apex sharply angulated ; hind margin extreniel_v oblique, 

 almost one half the length of the wing ; dorsal margin rather 

 full ; colour whitish-grey, much clouded, especially near the 

 margins, with pale brownish-grey ; markings all of the same 

 colour, not very distinct ; first line erect ; second formed 

 into crescents between the nervures, widely bent outward in 

 the middle and edged on the outside with white ; from it 

 whitish lines run along the nervures through the clouded 

 hind marginal area ; orbicular and reniform stigmata repre- 

 sented by dusky dots, between which is placed a rather 

 squared dull white spot ; cilia shining grey -brown. Hind 

 wings very narrow, especially shortened toward the anal 

 angle ; yellowish-grey, broadly clouded behind with pale 

 grey-brown, and similarly clouded in a less degree from the 

 base and along the dorsal margin ; a similar, slender, looped 

 transverse middle line partly encloses a large spot of the 

 whiter ground colour above it, and is itself edged below with 

 white ; cilia shining greyish-white. Female very similar yet 

 having the fore wings and the abdomen decidedly shorter, 

 and the hind margin of the former consequently more filled 

 out. 



Underside of the fore wings smooth, pale yellowish-grey, 

 with the markings of the upper side faintly visible, and a 

 whitish cloud in the bend of the second line. Hind wings 

 similar, with a central transverse grey line, and much 

 rippling of the same colour ; all the wings shining. Body 

 and legs pale yellow-brown. 



On the wing from the end of May till -July. 



Larva seven-eighths of an inch long, tapering at each end ; 

 head small, rather flattened, glossy light drab, speckled with 

 dark brown, and having the papillae tipped with brown ; 

 segments of the body plump and well defined, deeply divided 

 on the undersurface, very tumid at the setting on of all the 

 legs ; second segment glossy green above, the boundary of 

 a dorsal plate being defined on either side by a series of four 



