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obscurely white ; cilia brownish-white, intersected and dusted 

 with darker. Hind wings but little elongated, rounded behind, 

 smoky-while with the hinder area tinged with faint brownish 

 clouds; cilia dusky white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky whitish-brown, with 

 small black dashes from the costa, and faintly black indica- 

 tions of the sharper markings of the upper side in the 

 middle area. Hind wings white, dusted with brown ; central 

 spot black ; in the middle is a slender transverse brown line 

 dotted with black ; and beyond it another, still fainter ; 

 extreme hind margins of all the wings edged with small 

 brown curved streaks. Body and legs whitish-brown. 



On the wing in May and the beginning of June, and as a 

 second generation in August. 



Larva obese, stout and rugose, the rugosity occasioned by 

 each segment having an elevated transverse skinfold, on 

 which are situated several warts, each emitting a slender 

 bristle ; head partially concealed by the skin of the second 

 segment, rounded on the crown, of somewhat less diameter 

 than the body and slightly hairy ; colour various — the pre- 

 vailing varieties are — first, a pale raw-sienna-browu, with 

 three dorsal stripes of a somewhat darker colour, all of them 

 indistinct, and the median very slender ; second, brighter or 

 burnt-sienna-brown, with two broad longitudinal umber- 

 brown stripes, and the faintest possible indication of a 

 slender median stripe ; third, grey or putty-coloured, thickly 

 sprinkled with black, and having on each side of each seg- 

 ment an indication of a large crescentic white mark. In the 

 last variety the base of the legs is black, and in all the head 

 is beautifully tessellated, the tessellations in the brown 

 specimens being of a darker shade of the same colour, those 

 in the gayer specimens pure black. It rests with its prolegs 

 firmly attached, but most commonly with the legs free, the 

 body being bent double and the legs brought almost or quite 

 into contact with the ventral prolegs. Extremely sluggish 



