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little rounded ; colour pale g-reenisb-grey, bi-owuish-grey, or 

 purplish-grey ; at the base are two or three cloudy black dots 

 ■upon iiervures ; basal line olilique. black-brown, shaded off 

 outwardly ; first line rather erect, obscurely brown, blackened 

 on the costal and dorsal margins and on the median nervure ; 

 the space between the basal line and this forms a broad band 

 of brown clouding and black dusting, the latter especially on 

 the median nervure and the dorsal margin : second line not 

 very far beyond the first, erect but irivgular, slender, form- 

 ing three or four outward projections, black -brown ; the 

 central baud remaining, contrary to ordinary rule, of the 

 paler ground colour; disca! spot a black streak; all the area 

 beyond the second line usually shaded with purple-brown in 

 obscure clouds, through which run two faint rippled whitish 

 lines; from the uppermost outer angle of the central band a 

 broken or jointed oblique black streak runs upward into the 

 a)}ex of the wing ; cilia brownish-white, clouded with dark 

 brown. Hind wings long and ample, rounded behind ; dull 

 white dusted with smoky-brown, and having two exceedingly 

 faint transverse smoky-brown clouds or stripes ; nervures pale 

 brown ; cilia brownish-white. Female similar, often larger, 

 and with the body rather stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings silky pale smoky-brown, more 

 ochreous-brown along the costa ; discal spot, and two follow- 

 ing curved transverse strijies. faintly darkei'. Hind wings 

 white, dusted with light brown, and crossed in the middle by 

 a faint curved brown line ; central spot black. Body and 

 legs whitish-brown, tai'si in front black-brown barred with 

 white. 



Variable as already suggested in the shade of ground colour 

 .and in the colour and distinctness of the transverse dark 

 bands : also the first of these bands is often much blackened 

 upon the nervures; but lucal variation runs to a far greater 

 •extreme. Specimens from Durham are often of a bright 

 light reddish-brown, the bands much darker red-brown, with 

 •blackened nervures ; some of those from North Wales have 



