94 LEPIDOPTERA. 



lated; hind margin truncate, perpendicular, rounded off 

 towards the anal angle ; dorsal margin straight to near the 

 base, then fully rounded in; colour pale reddish-drab or 

 whitish-drab, often more tinged with red toward the hind 

 margin ; no basal line ; first line indicated by three dusky- 

 black dots placed on the principal nervures ; second line by 

 a curved row of equally indistinct black dots all placed on 

 nervures, and several of them followed by dark dusting ; no 

 indication of subterminal line or stigmata, but there is a 

 faint dark clouding on the median nervure, especially where 

 it branches into smaller nervures, and all of these, large and 

 small, are in some faint degree dotted with white; cilia 

 reddish-drab, distinctly darker than the rest of the wiug. 

 Hind wings narrow, thin, dusky-white, dusted, especially 

 along the nervures, with brown, and having in the middle a 

 partial transverse line indicated only on the nervures by 

 dark brown dots or streaks ; cilia reddish-white. Female a 

 little smaller ; fore wings rather narrower and paler in colour ; 

 body slightly stoutei'. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-drab ; the nervures 

 swollen, yellovi'ish-drab, edged on both sides with smoky- 

 brown. Hind wings dusky-white, dusted over the hinder 

 portion with brown, and faintly tinged along the costal 

 margin and nervures with red. Body and leg tufts pale 

 drab ; but the tufts small and the legs very bare ; tibi^ 

 dusky-black, barred with pale yellow. 



Eather variable in the ground colour of the fore wings, from 

 yellowish-white to pale purplish-red and even to grey-brown. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva slender, above of a delicate red, undersurface almost 

 white ; four minute dark dorsal dots on each segment and a 

 fine blackish lateral line ; the lobes of the head and the 

 dorsal plate somewhat shining brown. May and June, in 

 the stems of Jvncns Univprocarints (Jointed rush). (Dr. 

 Hofmann.) 



