64 I.EI'inoi'TERA. 



brown ; central lines almost ])arallel but distant from it, 

 broader and more distinct ; reddish-brown or smoky-brown, 

 passing outside the discal spot, which is a short black streak ; 

 second line more slender and sinuous, but parallel, except 

 that it is bluntly ani^ulated below the costa ; beyond this is 

 often a faint indication of another line or row of very obscure 

 cloudy spots ; costal margin narrowly edged by a brown 

 line; hind margin more slenderly edged by a fine darker line 

 formed into very flat crescents, and minute intermediate 

 dots ; cilia of the ground colour. Hind wings almost evenly 

 rounded behind, of the same colour ; central spot small and 

 black ; crossing it is a slender smoky-brown transverse line ; 

 at some distance beyond this another, more slender, but dis- 

 tinct ; hind margin edged by short, faintly curved, black 

 streaks, and in the middle by a few black dots; cilia greyish- 

 white. Female very similar. 



Underside an accurate copy of the upper, except that the 

 base of the fore wings is a little clouded with smoky-brown, 

 and the first line is hardly perceptible. Body light brown ; 

 legs of the same colour, the hinder pair very short and 

 thickly tufted with scales. 



A form constantly accompanying that described above — 

 and apparently the original typical form of the species — has 

 the space between the central and second lines of the fore 

 wings, and the corresponding band of the hind wings filled 

 up with smoky-brown, so as to form a conspicuous and con- 

 tinuous broad band ; it is with us by no means so common as 

 the form without the band, but both are reared indis- 

 criminately from the eggs of each. Occasionally the broad 

 band is supplemented by a following narrow stripe of the 

 same colour, and in the collection of Mr. H. J. Turner is a 

 specimen having the band of double the usual width, from a 

 complete filling of the outer area with dark colour. More 

 rarely, in the absence of the band, the whole surface of the 

 wings is dusted with smoky-brown atoms. There, is indeed, 

 reason to believe that a local race, strongly tinged over the 



