io8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



pale reddish-ochreons, dusted and clouded with white, and 

 softly with brown, especially upon the uervures; basal line 

 faintly suggested by a whitish edging; first line perpendi- 

 cular, very obscure, reddish-ochreous. edged inwardly with 

 white; second line oblique and curved back near the costa, 

 but indistinct and of the same colour, edged with white, and 

 sometimes followed by dark dots or streaks on the nervures; 

 subterminal line seldom visible, and then only as a paler 

 edge to a reddish cloud ; orbicular stigma obscurely indicated 

 by a white margin, but of irregular and uncertain shape; 

 reniform quite as obscure, its position indicated by partial 

 pale edges or a faint white cloudy spot ; all these markings 

 only visible under close scrutiny ; cilia concolorous. Hind 

 wings smoky-white with a faint shade of smoky-red toward 

 the middle and the hind margin ; cilia white. Female rather 

 stouter, and a very little smaller, otherwise similar. 



Underside of fore wings pale brownish-drab, dorsal region 

 white. Hind wings white, dusted over the costal and apical 

 regions with reddish-drab, nervures faintly indicated in the 

 same ; central spot just perceptible as a dusky streak, and 

 followed by an even more indistinct transverse brown line. 

 Body and legs reddish-drab. 



But little variable, though the reddish tinge is often 

 replaced by more dusky brown or smoky shading, and this 

 shows itself more especially upon the nervures beyond the 

 middle and the adjacent costal margin, which sometimes is 

 quite densely shaded ; in other instances the second line 

 toward the dorsal margin is thrown into view by a more 

 distinct white edofiup-. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva yellowish-white or reddisli, undersurface white, 

 with a clear shining lateral line and black spiracles ; head 

 shining yellow-brown with a black spot on the mouth ; dorsal 

 plate paler, less shining ; anal plate and prolegs similar. It 

 lives till the end of June of the following year deep in the 



