120 LEPIDOPTERA. 



much dusted with black ; from the middle of the base is 

 a short black streak under the median nervure; first line 

 suggested by a black dot on the same nervure and another 

 on the subdorsal ; the second line indicated by six similar 

 dots, all upon nervures, the uppermost being at the outer 

 edge of the discal cell; at the point at which the median 

 nervure divides into smallei- branches is usually an aggrega- 

 tion of black atoms, which also are sometimes scattered above 

 and below the nervures, and the median in that case is streaked 

 with white, sometimes for some distance, or is unicolorous, or 

 scarcely indicated ; rarely there is a cloudy black streak or 

 spot like the base of a reniform stigma ; beyond this the 

 nervures are usually paler or whitened and edged on each 

 side with smoky-grey ; cilia light red-brown or grey-brown. 

 Hind wings ample, the hind margin rounded except a slight 

 hollow below the apex; pale smoky-brown, dusted with 

 darker brown and having a faint golden gloss ; cilia pale 

 yellowish-brown. Female accurately similar except that 

 the body is stouter and has a very small pointed anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black ; costa broadly 

 yellow-drab; hind margin tinged with the same, and with 

 the nervures dusky Avhite ; cilia dusky-yellow. Hind wings 

 yellowish-white dusted with smoky-black; cilia dusky pale 

 yellow. Body and legs smoky-drab ; tibife reddish-drab. 



Not very variable, yet there is one form, constantly recurrent 

 though not common, in which the basal black streak of the 

 fore wings is quite obliterated. On the other hand, this 

 black streak is occasionally joined to the extended black 

 dusting, which then forms a longitudinal blackish stripe 

 nearly the whole length of the wing ; the ground colour 

 also varies from reddish-drab to grey-drab. In the collection 

 of M]'. F. Norgate is a specimen having tlie second line com- 

 fldctl in black dots; in that of the late Mr. F. Bond one 

 having the fore wings dusted thickly all over with black. 

 On the wing in July and August. 



