128 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, so as to form minute, close, parallel lines ; along the 

 median nervnre, and often continued beyond it to the hind 

 margin, in which case it is bent up below the apex of the 

 wiuo", is a cloudy umbreous, reddish-brown, or black-brown 

 longitudinal stripe, rather shaded off on its underside; from 

 its under side, or parallel with it, are numerous fine brown 

 lines, some of them edging the whiter nervures quite to the 

 hind margin, others lying between; almost the only other 

 definite marking is the second line, rather far back, curved 

 and bent, and formed of minute Ijlack-brown dots upon 

 nervures ; extreme hind margin edged with a row of black 

 dots lying hdiuccn nervures ; cilia purplish- white. Hind 

 wino-s long, apex angulated ; below it is a faint hollow in 

 the hind margin; greyish-white; nervures faintly edged on 

 both sides with smoky-grey ; hind margin dotted with black ; 

 cilia white. Female a little stouter ; fore wings rather nar- 

 rower and more pointed ; colour usually a little paler ; other- 

 wise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings purplish-white ; the costal 

 reo-ion finely striped with longitudinal brown lines, the 

 remainder clouded and striped with smoky-black ; from the 

 discal cell is a pale stripe lying toward the hind margin. 

 Hind wings white dusted with grey. Hind margins of all 

 the wings showing strongly the black dots. Body and legs 

 whitish-drab. 



There is considerable variation, as already suggested, in 

 the tone of colour of the fore wings, greyish-white, whitish- 

 drab, to grey-brown or light red-brown ; also in the depth of 

 colour of the longitudinal stripe, which in some individuals 

 is hardly perceptible, in others extends the whole length of 

 the wing, and in some of these is conspicuously dark, all 

 intermediate shades of variation being found. In Mr. F. J. 

 Hanbury's collection is a specimen strongly and beautifully 

 suffused with pink ; in that of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher one 

 which, with but little indication of the longitudinal stripe, 

 has the second line formed of eight or nine short black streaks. 



