L A REIVTID.-E—SCO TOS/A . 3,07 



colour, the anal tuft large and projecting bebind the bind 

 wings. Fore wings somewbat ovate ; costa very genth' 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated yet produced so as to give a 

 pointed appearance to the wing ; bind margin gently curved, 

 crenulated ; dorsal margin also rounded ; colour shining 

 grey-brown, rippled almost all over with faint undulating 

 darker brown transverse lines ; among these the basal, 

 first and second lines are just recognisable, but rather 

 emphasised on the costa, and also faintly edged with 

 pale grey or whitish threads ; central band very slightly 

 darker; extreme hind margin edged with dark brown 

 streaks ; cilia pale brown spotted with darker. Hind 

 wings long, rounded behind, also deeply scalloped and 

 crenulated, of the same colour and gloss as the fore wings, 

 and similarly rippled with even more obscure darker trans- 

 verse lines, and whitish dusting ; cilia pale brown, clouded 

 with darker. Female rather larger, the fore wings broader; 

 abdomen thicker, shorter, and without the large anal tuft ; 

 otherwise similar. 



Undersides of all the wings almost uniformly smoky-brown ; 

 discal and central dots just visible, black; second line of the 

 fore wings faintlj- indicated, followed by a yellow costal 

 spot, from which a pale thread crosses both fore and hind 

 wings ; cilia all spotted with black-ljrown. Fiody and legs 

 pale brown, the latter darker in front. 



Extremely constant in colour and faint markings. 



On the wing at the end of Jane and through -luly. 



Larva thick, short and broad, the segments strongly 

 marked ; general surface rough and uneven, very sparingly 

 clothed with hairs ; head smaller and narrower than the 

 second segment, rather jiorrected. smooth, black ; front of 

 the second segment yellow ; dorsul plate thereon deeper 

 yellow divided by a median line ; 1-here is a dorsal whitish 

 stripe intersected throughout by a slender black stripe ; on 

 each side of this is a liroader lead coloured stripe containing 



