130 LEPIDOPTERA. 



excesssively angulatecl and scalloped, placed near the hind 

 margin ; hind marginal space beyond it reddish-grey, edged 

 with short black curved lines ; cilia grey dusted and inter- 

 sected with smoky-black. Hind wings rounded beliind and 

 very faintly crenulated ; pale grey-brown, dusted and ripph'd 

 with darker and shaded with purple; liind margin prettily 

 edged witji black cresceiitic lines ; cilia grey-brown dashed 

 with black from the ])oints of the marginal line, and inter- 

 sected with smoky-brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-grey to the second 

 line, which is well indicated, paler beyond ; discal spot and a 

 few small streaks from the costa, black. Hind wings smoky 

 whitish-grey, dusted with darker; central spot black, followed 

 by a faiut smoky-grey transverse line. Body and legs pale 

 grey-brown. 



Usually hardly variable except in the intensity of the 

 purple-red colouring, aud tliis fades considerably even during 

 the life of the insect. A specimen in the collection of ^Mr. 

 S. J. Capper, however, has the ground-colour distinctly 

 (;/t/,v:-browii, tinged with pur])le ; and some reared from larv;\; 

 found in South Devon by Mr. L. B. Prout have a strong 

 tendency in the same direction, the deep red in them being 

 Miuoh suppressed. 



On the wing in June and July. 



L.\K\A rather short, tapering in front, and very slightly, 

 from the tenth segment, behind ; head brown ; general 

 colour pale greyish-brown, or sometimes greenish-brown ; 

 dorsal line black, distinctly visible on the second, third, 

 eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth segments, also bifurcated on 

 the head, forming two black lines down the face ; on the 

 intermediate segments to those mentioned is a black 

 > -shaped dorsal marking, the apex in front, and enclosing a 

 black spot in a pale grey or whitish triangle ; back and sides 

 shaded with grey so as to form large dorsal diamonds, of 

 which the >-shaped marks are the commencements ; sub- 



