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red atoms, of wliicli is formed a central sliade ; nervures aud 

 liiud marginal Hue purplish-chocolate; cilia dull greyish 

 purple with a darker intersecting line. Hind wings rather 

 small, yellowish-white clouded with smoky-brown, and with 

 a broad ill-defined band of the same before the hind margin, 

 much toothed along its outer edge ; nervures and a slender 

 transverse stripe before the middle purplish-brown ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with short brown lunules; cilia dull 

 yellow at the base, clouded with smoky-brown and tipped 

 with white. Female stouter, with threadlike antennas, other- 

 wise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings bright light golden-brown, 

 tinged along the costa and hind margin with dusky-brown 

 dusting ; reniform stigma cloudy black followed by a similar 

 straight transverse line, and beyond this by a broad smoky- 

 brown baud ; hind wings very similar ; body and leg-tufts dull 

 purplish-brown ; legs darker, the tibiee barred with yellow. 



Hardly variable, though probably the largest specimens 

 with the deepest colouring are found on the South Coast, and 

 those of darker purple and paler yellow in the North. But 

 the full richness of colouring is rarely seen in specimens 

 captured on the wing, since the rich orange-yellow colour 

 fades very rapidly to pale yellow during life. 

 On the wing from the end of August to October. 



Larva moderately stout, tolerably even in width through- 

 out, but with the divisions of the segments rather deeply 

 marked; head broad, rounded, yellowish-brown, antennal 

 papilla) rather distinct; dorsal plate black-brown, partially 

 divided with yellowish white; body pale yellow, more 

 deeply coloured at the segmental divisions; longitudinal 

 lines scarcely indicated, usual raised dots very large, black, 

 those on the sides crowded round the spiracles, which also 

 are black, and there is a black spot on the outer side of 

 each proleg ; legs pale yellow, ringed with black ; anal plate 

 black-brown. 



