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are divided by a faintly rippled white subtermiual line ; 

 crossing this a series of clouded black streaks runs obliquely 

 into the ajoex of the wing ; discal spot a black dot ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with short black streaks ; cilia whitish- 

 brown, clouded and intersected with smoky-brown. Hind 

 wings broad, rounded, but also faintly elbowed behind ; pale 

 umbreous, shading into shining white along the front margin; 

 near the base is a clouded black spot in the dorsal margin 

 coinciding with the black bar at the base of the abdomen, 

 and with the first line of the fore wings; beyond it is a series 

 of four or five dotted and dusted umbreous lines, which arise 

 on the dorsal margin, but do not completely cross the wing ; 

 beyond these a more fulvous-brow'n stripe completely crosses 

 the wing, and is separated from another similar stripe along 

 the hind margin by a zigzag white line ; extreme margin 

 edged with black streaks ; cilia whitish-brown, intersected 

 with smoky-brown. Female quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings very pale brown, shading to 

 brighter brown along the costa, and to white on the dorsal 

 margin ; discal spot conspicuous, black ; transverse lines of 

 the upper side faintly indicated. Hind wings white, dusted 

 with brown ; central spot distinct, black ; followed by 

 several curved, dusted, light brown transverse lines, of which 

 one in the middle is the most stronglj- marked ; hind margins 

 of all the wings strongly edged by black lines. Body 

 brownish-white ; legs browner. 



Rather variable in size ; extremely constant in colour and 

 faint markings. 



On the wing from the end of May till July. 



Larva elongate, slightly tapering toward the head, which 

 is rounded and flattened, brownish-ochreous, with a grey 

 shade on the face ; body dull pale brownish-ochreous ; dorsal 

 line blackish-brown, of irregular width and enlarged into 

 blotches on the middle segments, especially so on the ninth 

 and tenth, edged with pale ochreous ; subdorsal line waved, 



