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smoky-brown ; central spot a small black clot ; in the middle 

 of the win<? is a slender anfjulated smoky-brown transverse 

 line, followed by a whitish stri))e; cilia brownish-white, 

 spotted with iilack-brown. Female tpiite similar. 



Underside of the fore winji;S pale smoky-brown, with the 

 central baud faintly visible; in it is a distinct discal spot; 

 the subterminal line visibly white. Hind wiii^s white dusted 

 with brown; central spot black; i'oUowed by two taint 

 smok\'-browii transverse lines ; cilia all spotted as on the 

 upper side. H<iil\ and Icl's whit isli-bn>wn : front tarsi 

 black, barred with white. 



Kxceediiif^ly constant in colour and markintjs, yet Mr. 

 Sydney Webb informs me of a s]iecimen in which the middle 

 jiortion of the central l>and is creamy-white, the margins 

 remainini^' black. 



On the wing at the end of .iune .-uid in •luly. 



Lajua short and stout, usually placed in a hump-backed 

 position ; head small, rather sunk in the second segment, 

 pale greyish-brown, reticidated with darker; skin on the 

 front and hinder segments wrinkled ; across the back of 

 each, from the fifth to the tenth inclusive, there runs a 

 transver-se elevated ridge which on each side of the spiracular 

 lines meets a longitudinal ridge, and forms with it a lateral 

 hump; groundcolour pale suljiluir-green. along the region 

 of the spiracles shading into rich ])iid\% edgid lielow with 

 black, which bhiids into a broad lateral stripe of dark 

 olive; on the front segments are tbui' dorsal .^^tripes of 

 full green ; transverse dorsal ridges velvety olive-green, 

 softening in front into the pale ground colour with a tinge 

 of ])ink, and iH'Comiiig black at the sides; liiniier segments 

 blackish-green on the back, anil nnicli suffused with pink ; 

 spiracles pink, six of them enclosed in the black colour of 

 the transverse ridges; undersurlaee ot the ]iale ground 

 colour (W. ibickler.) 



.\ugnst and September: on meadow lue (Thcd'at rirm 



