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the inner side with purple-black ; discal spot a small black 

 dot ; hind margin edged with a fine purple-brown line ; cilia 

 pale purple-red. Hind wings strongly angulated behind ; of 

 the colour of the fore wings ; central spot distinct, black ; 

 just before, or even across, it is a continuation of the con- 

 spicuous central stripe of the fore wings, similarly coloured 

 and forming a complete band ; beyond it is a very slender 

 sinuous purple-brown line, having an outward elbow in the 

 middle ; hind margin edged by a thin purple-brown line ; 

 cilia pale I'ed. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale reddish-drab, shaded with 

 red-brown toward the costa, with purple toward the anal 

 angle, with smoky-brown toward the base ; the oblique stripe 

 and the second line more strongly marked, and more smoky 

 in colour, than above. Hind wings reddish-white, the 

 markings as on the upper side. Body and legs pale reddish- 

 brown. 



Very vai'iable in colour, from the palest drab to light 

 tawny and pinkish-red ; also in the distinctness of the central 

 band, which in the redder forms often merges itself in the 

 ground colour ; there is also some inconstancy in the discal 

 dot of the fore wings. 



On the wing from the end of June till August; in lint 

 seasons a partial second generation appears in September, or 

 even at the end of August. In very mild and sheltered 

 districts the first appearance is sometimes earlier, and the 

 second generation more complete. 



Larva very long and slender ; skin transversely and very 

 irregularly wrinkled ; head small and rounded, ochreous ; 

 body pale ochreous ; dorsal line distinct, brown, darker and 

 much more conspicuous on the hinder segments, often rejire- 

 sented bj- spots on the second to the fourth ; subdorsal line 

 distinct, threadlike, brown, edged above with a whitish- 

 ochreous line ; spiracular stripe paler than the ground colour, 

 indistinctly margined, except on the anal prolegs, where tin- 



