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from the eirg, tliaf the offspring are perfectly true to their 

 species, and sonietiiues even very closely follow the exact 

 colouring of the female parent. ^Ir. L. \\. I'rout points out 

 that in V. firn"jiit<i the stripes on the hind wings are 

 especially well marked toward the hind margin, while in 

 ('. iinidriit((riu the reverse is the case. His extensive experi- 

 ments in rearing the two .species are strongly confirmatory 

 of tlh'ir distinctness. 



7. C. quadi'ifasciaria, /,. — Kxpanse IJ to nearly 1 .[ 

 iiicii. Fore wings fawn-colour, with a broad central grey- 

 lilack band having a sharp tooth in its outer margin, but no 

 dark basai l)lotch. Jlind wings ])ale smoky-brown. 



AntenuiX' of the male pectinated with short obliijue ciliated 

 teeth, silvery brown ; ]ialpi projecting, slender, ])ale brown, 

 <lusted with white: head rough on the top, pale brown 

 mingled with white ; neck ridge sharp and distinct, collar 

 very small but placed in two well defined lobes, both of the 

 colour of the liead ; thorax roughened with short raised 

 scales and shortly tufted behind, pale brown ; abdomen ]iro- 

 portionately rather thick, whitish brown, each segment 

 broadly clouded with brownish-ochreous ; lateral and anal 

 tufts very small. Fore wings rather elongated ; the costa 

 gently curved, but more strongly so near the apex, which is 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently rounded ; dorsal 

 margin nearly straight : soft glossy fawn-colour, or light 

 reddish-brown, with a faintly angulated obscure blackish- 

 brown basal line, sometimes duplicated; first line almost 

 erect, gently curved; second line also nearly u])right but 

 throwing out a sharp angle or tooth in the middle, botli 

 black, and the sjiace between them filled in so as to form a 

 broad black-brown central band, in which are two pairs of 

 deejier black lines, each jiair parallel with a margin, and 

 usually enclosing a browner middle stri]ie, in which is a 

 black discal spot ; immediately outside the second line is an 

 accurately parallel brown thread followed by a more jiartial 



