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creiiiiiy-white line, I'ullowed by ;i wliitish-brown band, which 

 is often ahnost filled with small browu clouds and oclireous 

 lines on the nervures; first line black, sharply edged with 

 white, and throwinj^ out a strong angle, or fissure ; second 

 line rather unusually even, throwing out a very blunt angle 

 above the middle, and angulated inwardly, or fissured, just 

 below; these two lines enclose the central baiul. which is 

 dark umbreous or even black-brown, either plain, or enclosing 

 whitish or black interior lines, which again enclose a rather 

 paler middle space, having iu it a lilack di^^cal spot ; below 

 the middle the central band is usually completely divided by 

 whitr lines upon two of the nervures, though specimens iu 

 which ni) such division of the baud appears are far from 

 scarce, and seem to ]n-eponderate in the second generation : 

 the second line is closely edged outwardly by a slender white 

 line, followed by a line of light brown crescents, and this 

 by the subtermiiial line, wliicli is white, and thrown into long 

 loo])s which enclose pale brown clouds below the middle, 

 above it conical black spots, to the costa ; close below the 

 a))e.\ of the wing is a somewhat triangular brown blotch, 

 edged by a white line, both of which are, in some specimens, 

 prolonged in an irregular strijie along the hind margin : cilia 

 dark brown, with paler clouding. Hind wings broad and 

 well roinuled ; silky-white faintly shadetl with smoky-brown, 

 and rijjpled with the same along the hind margin ; central 

 spot small, l)rown : cilia brownish-white. Female very 

 similar, but a little larger and stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-white, more yellowish 

 along the costa ; the second line obscurely visible, smoky- 

 lirown, and having before it a shading of the same colour; 

 before the ape.x are three black dots and a clouding of pale 

 brown. Hind wings white, dusted with umbreous; central 

 spot and two equdistant curved lines of the sau.e colour. 

 Body and legs pale browu ; tarsi darker, Imt barred with 

 yellow. 



The princijial variation in this species is that already 



