120 l.EPIDOPTERA. 



middle; apex bluntly aiigiilated ; hind margin long, curved, 



more obli<|ue toward the anal angle; dorsal niai-gin almost 



straight ; clear snowy-white ; basal blotch umbi-eous, its 



outer edge almost straight ; first line extremely slender and 



indistinct, or even fragmentary-, originating in a conspicuous 



obliipie triangular brown streak on the dorsal margin ; just 



beyond the middle of the costa is a broad black-brown blotch 



which seems to commence the usual central band, but is cut oH' 



at one-third across the wing, and is, as to the remainder, only 



suggested by four or five ]iarallel rippled slender brown lines 



which attain the dorsal margin, the outermost forming the 



usual second line ; between the basal and this costal blotch 



are three small brown clouds on the costal margin ; others 



toward the apex of the wing are attached to a broad hind 



marginal smoky-grey band, in which lies a large squared 



white median spot, and in the darker portions a rippled 



white subterminal line ; cilia grey or white, according in 



colour with the adjacent margin. Hind wings rather small, 



rounded behind, white, rippled in the middle with very 



indistinct brown transverse lines, and with others, more 



noticeable, near the hind margin; cilia brown mixed with 



white. Female (piite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, darkest 

 along the costa, except where broken by a dusky white trans- 

 verse strijje ; hind wings similar, the white stripe continued 

 across them. Body and legs whitish-brown. 



Extremely constant in colour and markings, but in the 

 collection of ]\Ir. H. J. Turner, Secretary of the South 

 London Kutomological Society, is a specimen in which the 

 large co.stal dark blotch is split into three dark bare by 

 dividing white lines. 



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

 August. 



L.MfVA tapering toward the head, which is Hat, butf-brown, 

 slightly hairy, having two reddish lines wliieh unite, forming 



