8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the upper of which the reniform stigma is raucli obscured ; 

 orbicular stigma rather compressed, oblique, silvery-grey 

 edged with black ; claviform stigma faintly indicated as a 

 cloudy black spot ; subterminal line hardly visible, merely a 

 paler reddish irregular thread in the purple-red area, but 

 outside it the hind-margiual region is dark purple-brown, 

 enclosing faint black dashes on the nervures ; cilia purplish- 

 brown, faintly dashed with paler. Hind wings pale smoky- 

 brown, more smoky-yellow toward the base ; cilia yellow at their 

 base, then clouded with smoky-ljrown and tipped with white. 

 Female stouter, anal tuft small ; otherwise closely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-grey, with a silky 

 gloss ; nervures thickened and paler ; costal margin tinged 

 with purple. Hind wings dusky white, dusted along the costal 

 region, the nervures, and the hind margin with smoky-brown ; 

 cilia white, clouded with brown. Body, legs, and leg-tufts pale 

 drab, the latter tinged with purple ; tibi^dark purple-brown. 



Very slightly variable in the general colour of the fore 

 wings, from purplish-red to purple-grey, and in the degree of 

 silvery-grey clouding. A specimen in the collection of Mr. 

 S. Stevens has these wings entirely dark purple, without any 

 paler clouding ; it was taken at Southend, Essex. In my own 

 cabinet is an old specimen— unfortunately not labelled— which 

 is strongly tinged with rusty-red, and has no pale clouding. 



On the wing at the end of July and in August. 



Larva about three-quarters of an inch long and slender in 

 proportion ; head small and globular, narrower than the 

 second segment ; body cylindrical and attenuated toward the 

 extremities ; a horny plate each on the second and anal seg- 

 ments ; segmental divisions distinct ; skin tough and wiry, 

 giving the creature the look and feeling of a meal-worm. 

 Head shining dark brown; plates both wainscot-brown, 

 the dorsal edged with dark brown; general colour dingy 

 ochreous-yellow, with a clearly defined dark juirplish stripe 

 along the dorsal region, tin-ougli the centre of which runs 



