z^^ LEPIDOPTERA. 



the inside, .•md these markings are very distinct where the 

 enclosed space is white, very obscure where it is brown or 

 grey, invisible wliere black ; outside, tlie second line is closely 

 edged by a white line, which is followed by an irregular 

 tawny-yeliow or red-brown stripe, and this by the scalloped 

 white subterniinal line ; hiud-inargiiial region clouded with 

 ])iii-plish-grey, brown, black, or tawny, having a black' cloud 

 (ir angulatcd iildteli aliove t hi^ uiiudli' extruding to the costa, 

 and from it lower down an oi)liipie black streak running intit 

 rheapex; I'ilia white, much cloudi'd with Ijlack-brown. Hind 

 wings silky, long, rouiidrd behind ; smoky whitisli-ln'own ; 

 cnitral spot hardly visible; in the middle is a faint smoky- 

 brown transverse line, much bent, making a decided, and 

 sometimes acute, angle behind ; hind-marginal region faintly 

 clouded with yellow-brown; cilia similar. female hardly 

 (littering, except that the body is a little .stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky pale yellowish-brown : 

 yellow along the costa ; second line lilack, forming a long 

 black bar from the costa, edgeil outside by a ])artial white- 

 yellow stripe; beyond this clouded with brown, but a yellow 

 streak runs into the a]iex. 1 1 ind wings white, dusted with 

 brown; central spot a minute brown dot; followed by three 

 nearly equidistant smoky-brown transverse lines, of wiiicii the 

 second is strongly angulaled outwartls, but the otlier two 

 curved. liiidyand li-g.-- pale brnwn ; tarsi barred with i)lack- 

 brown. 



Variable uj-ion somewhat sin)ilar lines to the hist species, 

 but aliMDst excluding thf inorr dull brown furnis anil those 

 with the ochreous central band. On the contrary, this is a 

 far brii^hter species, since in those very numerous cases in 

 which the central liand is black tlu' orange-red or fawn 

 ciilour(Ml shading outside it is brighter and num extensive 

 than in the white and light coloured varieties, instead of less 

 so. < 'n (hr othtT hanil, the varied forms in which tlie 

 central band is white are very often also white quite out to 

 the middle of the hind margin, the markings appearing only 



