i.ARF. \''rin.K—cin:siAs. 417 



behiiKl tlie collar is a iir ad pnr[)le-lin)\vn band, from wldcli 

 the whitish thorax is ili nled ; this is striped with the same 

 colour: abdomen smoo h, cylindrical, pale drab, the tufts 

 hardly visible. Fore will's long-ovate, costa regularly arched ; 

 apex ronnded ; hind n r gin very long and oblif|ne, gently 

 curved, the anal angle 1 illy indicated, but the curve running 

 into the dorsal mai-gii .md there prolonged; colour asliy- 

 grey clouded with pah fulvous ; at the extreme base is a 

 black streak in the n dian nervure; basal line distinct, 

 sharply angulated. fawi ccilour, this tint shading off beyond 

 it, especially upon the i rvures, which also are dotted with 

 black ; first line very ■ hscure, hardly noticeable, a much 

 angulated shade of fawi-rcilour ; second line just beyond it, 

 arising with a strong bl. rk and fawn streak from the costa, 

 becoming fainter below the middle, l)ut uniting with the first 

 line at its angles ; ontsi ip this line is a broad oblique band 

 beautifully shaded with fulvous, shading into pale purplish- 

 grey, and this edged outside by a straight white subterminal 

 line near the hind margin ; but the costal jiortion barred and 

 blotched with purplish-brown and yellowish-white : hind 

 marginal region dusted with purple-brown, and edged with 

 similar but darker lunules ; cilia shining white, intersected 

 with smoky-brown. Hind wings long and narrow, rounded 

 behind, very pale smoky yellow-ljrown ; cilia rather paler. 

 Female similar, hardly stouter, often having the markings 

 more confused and paler. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky ]iale purplish-l)ufi', 

 more ochreous toward the costa, where beyond tjie middle is 

 a brown spot ; nervures purplish-brown ; cilia prettily edged 

 and barred with brown. Hind wings silky pale smoky-buff', 

 edged by a brown line. Body and legs pale brown. 



Not very variable, but the markings, as already remarked, 

 are sometimes blurred and obscured in the female; some- 

 times in the male the ground colour is nearly white. 



On the wing rather irregularly from May till August ; 

 indeed, ilr. E. H. Taylor records the emergence of specimens 



\oi,. VIII. 2 D 



