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outside the second line also usually clouded, and sometimes 

 filled up, with dark red-brown, deepest in colour at the 

 middle angles. 



Underside very similar to the upper, except that the fore 

 wings are clouded with smoke-colour and deficient of the 

 first line, and that the hind wings are whiter in colour. Body 

 and legs light red-brown. 



Variation beyond that already adverted to is inconsider- 

 able, but in the male there is sometimes increase of the red- 

 brown tint toward the margins, the cilia then becoming 

 spotted with the darker colour ; and in the female the trans- 

 verse clouding varies greatly in intensity ; in this se.K also 

 the points of the fore wings become in some specimens 

 decidedly sharper and more produced. 



On the wing from the end of June till the beginning of 

 August. 



Larva tapering to the front ; ribbed transversely, and 

 rough to the touch ; the transverse ribs less distinct on the 

 anterior portions of the middle segments ; colour of the head 

 and face dark brown, the head notched and thickly sprinkled 

 with hairs ; colour of the body various shades of olive-brown; 

 dorsal line composed of two slender darker brown lines, 

 edging another of a much lighter shade ; these dark edging 

 lines only present from the fifth segment to the twelftli ; on 

 each of the fourth to the eleventh segments are two trans- 

 versely placed black dots ; and on the fifth to the ninth, 

 each, there is a dark V, with its point toward the anal 

 extremity ; the divisions of these last-named segments are 

 very perceptible in the lateral skin-fold ; the spiracles are of 

 the darker shade ; the ventral surface of an almost uniform 

 olive-brown. (Rev. P. II. Jennings.) Apparently variable. 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt's larvaj were of a dirty ochreous colour with 

 smoky suffusion, the dark edgings of the dorsal pale line 

 forming broad dark stripes on segments ten to thirteen ; 

 paler and narrower on segments two to five ; on segments 



