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brown, with broken, cloudy, reddish white transverse stripes, 

 and a white spot at the anal angle of the fore wings. 



Antennae of the male slender, black-brown ; palpi minute, 

 brown ; head and thorax bronzy black-brown ; abdomen dull 

 brown, longitudinally streaked, on each side, with white. 

 Fore wings rather short, the lobes broad and hooked ; costa 

 strongly arched ; apex drooping but sharply angulated, 

 second lobe more bluntly so ; bronzy black-brown ; with 

 whitish-yellow-browu opposite spots on the costal and dorsal 

 margins beyond the middle, and again at the base of the 

 fissure, where they almost unite as an angulated transverse 

 stripe ; a white streak runs into the apex of the first lobe, 

 and there is a white dash on the long cilia of the second. 

 Hind wings fully divided, the lobes rather broad ; bronzy- 

 brown with a yellowish cloud on the cilia of the second lobe, 

 and a long, similar cloud on those of the third ; cilia other- 

 wise darker bronzy-brown. Legs long and very thin, white 

 with black-brown bands and clouding. Female similar, 

 usually- rather larger. 



Underside a repetition of the upper in colour and 

 markings. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva narrowly fusiform ; head yellowish-brown, body 

 green, with the dorsal line darker green ; sub-dorsal line 

 also dark green, but so wavy as almost to look like separate 

 spots in each segment ; spiracles black ; there are two 

 rows of lateral tubercles, each having a few dusky hairs. 

 (Dr. Jordan.) 



May and June on Prciuditliis 2nirpurea, on the undersides 

 of the leaves, eating holes in them. (Frey.) This plant is 

 not known as British, but is very closely allied to the species 

 of Lactuca, and Dr. Jordan's larv» ate Laduca mural is 

 freely. 



Pupa whitish-grey, dusted with black over the front 

 portion, the thorax, and the wing cases. (Frey.) 



