276 I.El'inol^TEKA. 



which runs a pah- lirown hue. not (|iiite parallel ; second line 

 of the same colour, curved and iiiuch indented, and having in 

 the middle a large outward projection doubly toothed at its 

 apex ; the space enclosed by these two lines is wholly dark 

 iimbreous. I'orniing a broad handsome central hand strongly 

 toothed outwardly : inwardly rippled with scalloped slender 

 black lines, and containing a small black discal dot : imme- 

 diately following this is a stripe of the shining brownish- 

 white ground colour, most delicately divided by two, almost 

 parallel, slender brown threads, and broadly margining ever}' 

 angle and curve of tiie second line ; liind marginal region 

 clouded and dappled with bright light l)rown or black-brown, 

 through which runs the irregular brownish-white subter- 

 minal line ; running into th(> apex of the wing is an undu- 

 lating black streak joined below to the darkest part of the 

 clouding, edged above by a parallel whitish streak which 

 runs with it into the apex; above this on the ci>sta are 

 ustuilly two black-i)r(iwn s[)ots ; cilia brownisli-whiti' regu- 

 larly barred with dark umbreous. Hind wings long and 

 rather broad, smoky-white tinged with pale smoky-brown to 

 the iiuddle ; hind marginal area occupied by a broad faint 

 cloudy smoky-brown band, edged with short brown streaks; 

 cilia brownish-wlnte clouded with undireous. I'emale very 

 similar. 



I'luli-rside of the fore wings light umbreous. brighter 

 along the costa and hind margin ; second line yellowish, 

 white, and distinctly visible; subternunal line re])r('sented 

 by a coni])lete row of whitt^ dots. Jlind wings brownish- 

 white, thickly dusted with brown, and faintly dap])led beyond 

 the middle with rows of white dots. Hody and legs pale 

 brown. 



Usually (|uite constant in colour and markings ; but liable 

 to local races. Of these one has the basal blotch and the 

 central band very dark, often almost black, while the remain- 

 ing areas of the fore wings are smooth glossy cream colour, 

 or nenrh white, in South-west Yorkshire sometimes ciuite 



