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shiuing, rounded behiud, silky white, tinged toward the base 

 with pale smoky-brown ; hind-marginal region clouded with 

 brown, in which are portions of two scalloped white transverse 

 lines ; extreme margin edged by a dark brown line ; cilia 

 white dashed and clouded with brown. Female quite similar. 

 Underside of the fore wings pale ochreous along the costa 

 and apex, rather smoky in the middle, and shading oft' to 

 smoky-white ; beyond the middle are three closely following 

 purplish-bi'own transverse lines ; beyond these a dotted line, 

 and outside it a large blotch, both purplish-brown. Hind 

 wings yellowish-white, dusted all over with pale brown ; 

 central spot small and black ; beyond it are two ver_y slender 

 curved bro\vn transverse lines, and another of smoky-brown 

 spots much more strongly Imarked ; cilia similarly spotted 

 with brown. Body and legs pale brown. 



Usually hardly varying at all ; there is a trifling difference 

 sometimes in the breadth of the central band and in the 

 depth of colour of the tawny clouding in the intermediate and 

 outer paler spaces. But more than twenty years ago a 

 single brood of larvas was reared by the late Dr. Hearder at 

 Carmarthen, South Wales, every resulting moth of which was, 

 I believe, of larger than usual size, and brighter colouring, 

 the pale stripe before the first line and the outer pale space 

 being both creamy white, almost without the usual tawny 

 clouding. Four of these fine examples were sent to me by 

 Dr. Hearder and still adorn my collection and I find that 

 since his death six more have passed into the possession of 

 Mr. W. M. Christy. Doubtless others are scattered about in 

 other collections ; but all further attempts to rear this hand- 

 some form failed. 



On the wing in -July and August. 



Larva moderately stout, tapering in front; divisions 

 strongly indicated, the termination of each segment being 

 larger than the commencement of the next : third segment 

 swollen so as tn Iri.un a cdlai- pdiiiting backwards, dorsal 



