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throws off claws from its base ; second line very oblique, 

 stroEgh' undulated but not very distinct, dull brown, edged 

 by a white parallel stripe, and this by a slender strijie of 

 brown clouding which spreads out toward the apex; hind 

 margin dotted with black : cilia whitish-drab. Hind wings 

 not very broad : apex rounded : hind margin undulated and 

 hardly rounded ; silky smoky white, the cilia white. I'Vniale 

 with rather narrower fore wings, and stout abdomen, often 

 rather small, and more sharply marked. 



Underside of the fore wings shining yellowish-drab, 

 clouded beyond the middle with smoke colour. Hind wings 

 smoky white. Body and legs brownish-white. 



Very variable in size. Rather so in the depth of the 

 markings; occasional specimens having the middle area 

 darkened, or an unusual darkening of the first line and its 

 attendant clouding. This species may always be recognised 

 by its narrow and pointed fore wings and their brownish 

 tint. 



On the wing in its more fa\oured localities on the sea- 

 coast in every month from April to October, probably in two 

 generations ; but in other localities in one only, lasting from 

 July till October. 



Larva rather slender, cylindrical and of nearly uniform 

 width, tapering very slightly at the anal extremity ; head ot" 

 about the same width as the second segment, highly polished, 

 pale brown ; dorsal plate similarly polished, dark sienna- 

 brown, often nearly black ; skin smooth and glossy, the 

 segments deeply divided ; ground colour very dark smoky 

 grey, with an indistinct greenish tinge ; raised dots smooth 

 and glossy, of a darker shade of the ground colour, or in 

 some specimens nearly black ; ventral surface of a pale shade 

 of the ground colour; the lejs ringed and ti])ped with black. 

 (G. T. Porritt.) 



Octol)er, and feeding through the winter till May on the 

 South Coast, and again (apparently) in July and August, bnt 



