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clivided, so tliafc it is difficult to call any the (jfound colour; 

 basal region to the first line o'reenish-brown or olive-brown, 

 twice divided by slender curved Itlack transverse lines ; first 

 line rather erect, a little curved and indented, coin])osed of 

 black clouding ; second line lilack. oblique, indented, throw- 

 ing out a strong doubly-toothed projection in the middle; 

 the s])ace between these two lines forming a broad, conspic- 

 uous brown-black or olive-black central band, which, with its 

 sort of tailed projection, gives the moth a peculiar iloahcd 

 aspect when at rest ; in this band is an obscure elongated 

 black discal spot, followed by a black indented transverse 

 line ; space outside this band bright clear white, forming a 

 wide .stripe divided liy a much scalloped, irregular, brown 

 transverse line, and edged outside by olive-brown clouds, 

 through which runs the deeply-scalloped white subterminal 

 line, edged with small black clouds ; of these, two, above 

 the middle, are distinct, and are divided, by an extension of 

 the white band, from the other black clouds on the costa ; 

 cilia olive-brown, dashed with white. Hind wings long, 

 rounded l)eliind. white, clouded with pale smoky-brown ; 

 central spot small, black-brown ; beyond it are two or three 

 faint slender dusky transverse lines, and along the hind 

 margin a broad browner cloud broken by a series of white 

 dots; cilia pale brown. Female quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings an almost exact reproduction 

 of the markings of the ujiper, but only in dull smoky-brown; 

 also along the costa there is a whitish stripe. Hind wings 

 white, dusted with brown, and having tlie faint lines of the 

 upperside repeated in olive-brown. Body and legs wliitish- 

 brnwn ; the front tarsi barred with black-brown. 



Not variable, but liable to fading of the green tints from 

 olive towards yellow. 



On the wing in -June and July ; a j)artial second genera- 

 tion has been reared, indoors, in September. 



Lakva rather stout, c_ylindrical, but faintly thickened 



