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streaks; cilia white, dappled with brown. Hindwiugs rather 

 small, rounded behind ; smoky-white, faintly clouded with 

 brown, more so toward the hind margin; cilia white. Female 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smok3--brown ; on the 

 costa beyond the middle is a pale yellow spot originating a 

 faint whitish transverse stripe ; lieyond this is a darker 

 obscure stripe, and tlie hind-marginal region paler. Hind 

 wings brownish-white, with a smoky-black central spot, and a 

 double brown band beyond tlie middle. Body and legs brown. 



\'ariable in the depth of colour of the transverse bands, 

 especially those toward the hind margin. In the collection 

 of Professor Meldola is a lovely specimen, nearly white, with 

 all the slender transverse lines of a bright light brown, the 

 central band sharply black-brown, and the apex blotched 

 with black. This specimen was obtained in Surrey. 



(Jn the wing in July and August. 



Larv.v stout, attenuated at each extremity ; divisions of 

 the segments well marked, especially so at the sides ; head 

 small, shining, yellowish-brown reticulated with darlc brown; 

 dorsal plate similarly coloured ; body dull brownish-ochreous, 

 the back paler: dorsal line grey; subdorsal lines dull 

 ochreous or whitish, shaded on each side with greyish-brown, 

 and having a rather oblicjue dark grey dash on each seg- 

 mental division ; spiracular line broad, whitish, edged above 

 with a darker shade of the ground colour, beneath with dark 

 greyish-brown ; the dorsal and subdorsal lines unite on the 

 posterior segments, forming a dark shade which ends in 

 a point on the thirteenth ; between the subdorsal and spira- 

 cular lines is another, more brownish line ; raised dots and 

 spiracles black in ]iale ochreous rings ; on the under-surface 

 are greyish longitudinal stripes. 



The grey oblique dorsal dashes are sometimes produced so 

 as to form inconi])letP prostrate V-shaped markings, the 

 apices in front. (Chas. Feuu.^ 



