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sharp perpendicular line which divides the wings into halves 

 and passes between the stigmata, but the true remainder of 

 the second line, when visible, passes round outside the stigmata 

 in the usual manner as a faintly dotted brown line ; sub- 

 terminal line when visible dusky-white or pale brown, waved 

 and roughly forming two broad crescents, edged inwardly 

 with very pale brown, but bordered outside by a long brown 

 cloudy stripe along the hind margin; the perpendicular line 

 between the stigmata very often divides the wing evenly into 

 two colours, brown to the middle, thence white or pale-brown 

 to near the hind margin ; orbicular stigma small, round, 

 brown, margined with darker; reniform stigma rarely per- 

 ceptible except from a black-brown line at its back, but 

 occasionally outlined with faint brown or white ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with minute black streaks ; cilia rather 

 long, pale brown, intersected with darker, and partially 

 dashed with the same. Hind wings rather short, brownish- 

 white, nervures slightly browner ; hind margin broadly shaded 

 with smoky-brown ; cilia yellow at the base, white at the tips, 

 the whole intersected by a brown line. Female much smaller, 

 usually pale brown with a general marbling of reddish-brown 

 or umbreous. and the reniform stigma outlined with white ; 

 body decidedly shorter, but only moderately stout, and with 

 a small pointed anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings brownish -drab, shading to 

 white along the dorsal region ; costa clouded with brown ; 

 cilia browm, broadly dashed with white. Hind wings yel- 

 lowish-white, dusted all over with brown ; sometimes with a 

 faint indication of a darker central transverse line. Body 

 and legs brownish-drab. 



It is difficult in this most variable species even to select 

 the form which may, from preponderance of numbers, be 

 considered typical, but that described above is usually 

 admitted as such. Yet a form which, instead of having 

 the colours of the fore wings equally divided, has them com- 

 pletely marbled with some shade of brown or reddish-brown 



