LARENTID.-E- COREMFA. 1(7 



but blacker line or shade makiug a faint rivuli/t outside 

 the central band ; hind marginal region faintly clouded 

 with deeper brown, through which runs a faint whitish sub- 

 terminal line ; and at the back of this is, in most specimens, a 

 faint black cloud above the middle ; less frequently there is a 

 second such cloud touching the costa ; from the lower 

 cloud, a similar blackish dash runs into the hind margin 

 just below the apex ; cilia pale brown, clouded with darker 

 brown and tipped with white. Hind wings almost elongate, 

 rounded behind ; somewhat unicolorous smoky-brown, with 

 only suggestions of three or four whitish transverse threads 

 in the middle ; cilia a little paler. Female similar, but with 

 simple antenna;. 



Underside of the fore wings whitish brown, clouded toward 

 the hind margin with smoky-browu ; discal spot and upper 

 portion of the second line black and sharjdy defined. Hind 

 wings dusky white, with brown dusting, and the hind margin 

 tinged with ])urple-brown. Body and legs whitish-brown : 

 front tarsi smoky-black, dotted with white. 



Rather variable in the ground colour, from reddish-brown 

 to greyish-brown ; more .so in the depth of colour of the 

 central baud, which in some specimens is almost evenly 

 l)lack, in others so shaded between the internal lines with 

 grey-brown as to be comparatively pale in colour, but the 

 edges and internal lines still black. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larv.\ rather stout, decreasing slightly toward the head, 

 which is small and rounded, grey-brown ; skin dull, with the 

 sides much puckered ; greyish ochreous with numerous 

 minute grey lines and streaks, and with an indi.stinct series 

 of grey blotches, one on each segment, forming the rough 

 outlines of dorsal V-shaped markings pointing forwards, and 

 each succeeded by a paler spot ; undersurface conspicuously 

 pale ochreous with a pinkish tinge, aud marked witii 

 numerous faint grey lines : a paler ventral stripe is margined 



