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streak, and beyond it some faint brown clouding ; cilia pale 

 drab clouded with umbreous, but divided by a white dash at 

 the tip of each nervure. Hind wings rather fully rounded 

 at the apex and having the margin below it slightly hollowed ; 

 dark smoky-brown, very little paler at the base ; ciha pale 

 yellowish-brown, clouded toward the apex with umbreous. 

 Female accurately similar except that the abdomen is stouter 

 and the anal tuft small, and in some individuals the nervures 

 of the hind wings are of a darker brown. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-brown, rather 

 paler along the margins and with the nervures faintly 

 browner. Hind wings smoky-brown, dusted with black 

 along the costa, but shading paler toward the anal angle, 

 and with an obscure pale central cloud ; cilia pale yellowish- 

 brown, yellowish-white toward the anal angle. Body and 

 legs dusky purplish-drab ; leg-tufts pale drab. 



A little variable in the thickness and intensity of the 

 longitudinal black and brown streaks, otherwise extremely 

 constant. But in the collection of the late Mr. F. Bond is 

 a specimen having the ground colour white; and the late 

 Kev. H. Burney possessed one in which the usually brown 

 stripes of the fore wings were all black, thickened, lengthened, 

 and almost usurping the whole area of the wings. 



On the wing in June and July. There is a single record 

 of the capture of a specimen of a second generation in 

 November. 



La1{VA very strongly resembling those of L. iminira, L. 

 pallens, L. lithcmjyria, and L. imdorina ; reddish-brown, dull 

 ochreous brown, or dingy greyish-ochreous ; dorsal line a 

 thin thread of pale ochreous edged with dusky-brown; on 

 either side a space of dingy brown, followed by a line of 

 dusky atoms, and then a stripe of the ochreous ground 

 colour ; subdorsal line brown, edged externally with blackish 

 at the anterior portion of each segment ; next to it a thread 

 of pale ochreous edged with reddish-brown, then a broad 



