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spot ; second line equally oblique, nearly straight, reaching 

 the costa considerably before the apex of the wing, and in its 

 upper portion thickened into a red-brown stripe ; the central 

 space between these two lines is sometimes only faintly 

 clouded or streaked with brown, more often filled u^j by a 

 series of parallel brown lines or stripes, straight until they 

 nearly approach the costa, when they are suddenly bent 

 back ; these form a most graceful central band ; outside this 

 are faint parallel Ijrown lines, and along the hind margin a 

 pale brown cloud through which runs an obscurely white 

 subtermiual line ; the extreme margin being edged by a 

 brown line ; cilia pale brown. Hind wings rather squared 

 behind, but with the middle of the hind margin bluntly 

 elbowed ; whitish-brown dusted with darker ; from the base 

 to the middle is a series of parallel partial transverse 

 umbreous lines, almost sti'aight from the dorsal margin, the 

 outermost the darkest ; beyond this is a series of complete 

 curved slender transverse stripes, of similar colour, filling the 

 hind marginal area, which is edged by a brown line ; cilia 

 pale brown. Female similar, or having the markings rather 

 more strongly defined. 



Undersides of all the wings very pale brown with the 

 markings of the upper side faintly repeated. Body and legs 

 also pale brown. 



Variable, as already shown, in the presence and distinct- 

 ness of the dark lines in the central band. (Generally, though 

 not invariably, the j)aler specimens are males ; the darker, 

 females. Abroad the pale form is known as var. ronjiniHuria . 

 On the wing in June. This seems to be definitely estab- 

 lished in this country by the record of captures by Mr. F. 

 Bond ; but authors are not unanimous. Stephens gives no 

 time of occurrence, nor does Curtis, nor Wood. Stainton 

 says April and August — by which one understands two 

 generations ; this is confirmed by Newman, who, however, 

 says that it appears in March and Srpfnnhiv. Berge, how- 

 ever, says from April to August, and this is followed by 



