2o8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



shading, especially toward the hind mai-oins ; three slender 

 stripes of the same colour across the fore pair; cilia 

 cliei|uered. 



Antennti' of the male short, simple, ciliated, brown, barred 

 at the back with white; palpi minute, lio-ht brown; face 

 convex and closely smoothed, whitish-brown ; eyes lilack ; 

 to]i c>f the head ])ali' butf, edited at the back with brown ; 

 neck-ridge similar ; thorax also pale butf much dusted with 

 umbreous; abdomen similar, lateral and anal tufts small and 

 paler. Fore wings short and broad ; costa well arched ; apex 

 very bluntly angulated, almost rounded ; hind margin gently 

 curved, straighter toward the anal angle, which is well 

 defined ; dorsal margin rounded ; colour dull vellowish-bufl", 

 dusted with umbreous or grey-brown except along the costa, 

 and shading gradually into smooth umbreous-brown or 

 leaden-brown in the hinder area ; in the middle jrortion are 

 three obscure, ]);irallel and nearly erect, brown transverse 

 lines often partially obscured liy leaden-brown clouding; 

 nervures toward the hind margin faintly blackened ; cilia 

 dusky white regularly spotted with dark brown. Hind wings 

 elongated, strongly crenidated and prolonged to a small 

 middle point behind ; whitish-buff at the base, shading into 

 umbreous toward the hind margin iind elsewhere dusted with 

 the same colour; cilia pale biilf spotted on each crenulation 

 with smoky-brown. Female a little paler in colour or more 

 tinged with ochreous; the transverse lines sometimes more 

 distinct and even slightly suggested in the hind wings. 



I'nderside of all \\w wings pale brownish-ochreous, with 

 faintly darker, regular narrow transverse strijies beyond the 

 middle. Body and legs jiale ochreous. 



Variable in the ground colour, the degree of dark brown 

 suffusion, and the consecpient extent of obliteration of the 

 trausvi'rse lines. The clouding is often rather dark in speci- 

 mens from .Midland hill districts : and Colonel Partridge has 

 a s])ecinien taken near Dover which is wholly suffused with 

 didl leaden-brown. 



