224 r.FPIDOI'TERA. 



hind and dorsal margins both fully curved, umbreous, the 

 nervures dotted and streaked with darker brown or black- 

 brown ; basal line very faintly white, more distinctly indi- 

 cated by a pair of white dots close to the base of the dorsal 

 margin ; first line faintly suggested by a double series of 

 whitish dots, very obscure, but producing two, more distinct, 

 white streaks on the dorsal margin ; second line dark brown, 

 much indented, throwing out two points in the middle, 

 edged on the outside by a broad double white rivulet stripe, 

 which is intersected b}' a fine indented brown line, and 

 usually a little obscured in the middle ; from near its upper 

 margin proceeds a rippled white line to the costa, and form- 

 ing a portion of the subterminal line, otherwise extremely 

 faint ; this is preceded and followed by small but noticeable 

 black streaks upon the nervures; cilia brown, clouded with 

 whitish-brown, and very glistening. Hind wings rather elon- 

 gated, smoothly rounded behind ; shining smoky-brown with 

 a faint central paler cloudy transverse stripe ; cilia whitish- 

 brown, clouded with smoky-brown. Female quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-umbreous, with the 

 white rivulet and following costal streak visible. Hind 

 wings of the same colour, but the central band white; hind 

 maro-ln ed'i'ed with white; cilia spotted alternately with 

 w-hite and brown. Body whitish-brown ; legs umbreous. 



Only a little variable in the distinctness of the broad white 

 rivulet. 



( )n the wing in June and July. 



Lakv.V tolerably plump ; head highly polished, its lobes 

 rounded ; a little narrower than the second, but wider than 

 the third segment, deep black, on the second segment is an 

 etpially polished half-circular plate, and there is also a simi- 

 larlv polished plate on the anal segment, both intensely black ; 

 body cvlindrical, of tolerably uniform width, tapering a little 

 behind ; segmeuts pluuip, their divisions well defined ; 

 there are a few scattered short hairs; colour of the dorsal 



