I70 LEPIDOPTERA. 



apex sharply angulatecl ; hind marg-in just below it straight 

 or almost retuse and hardly oblique, but curved oS below the 

 middle; dorsal margin straight; colour orange-red or pale 

 tawny clouded with red-brown; first line slender but very 

 conspicuous, red-brown, forming one large elbow towards the 

 middle of the wing; second line also conspicuous, slender, 

 darker red-brown, oblique, rather waved but tolerably direct, 

 and placed far beyond the middle of the wing ; subterminal 

 line merely the edging of an irregular darker tawny cloud 

 which lies along the hind margin; nervures all slenderly 

 dark tawny-brown; orbicular stigma a small, faint, unmar- 

 gined, pale ochreous cloud ; reniform stigma narrow, oblique, 

 ochreous, its base altered and elongated into a wedge-shaped, 

 pure white streak, the whole margined by a dark tawny cloud ; 

 cilia light purplish-brown. Hind wings rounded but with 

 the hind margin slightly sinuous ; pale smoky-brown, rather 

 paler at the base and costal margin ; nervures a little darker ; 

 cilia brownish-white. Female extremely similar ; body very 

 little stouter, but the anal tuft much smaller. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-chestnut, shading 

 off along the dorsal region to shining yellowish-white ; ner- 

 vures and second line smoky-black. Hind wings yellowish- 

 white, dusted along the costal region, and in a broad band along 

 the hind margin, with orange-red, the band bordered inwardly 

 by a smoky-black transverse line. Body and legs rusty- 

 red. 



Very constant in markings but variable in colour, from 

 pale brownish-ochreous to dark tawny. In the Entomologist, 

 vol. ii., is figured a very singular aberration, in which the 

 transverse lines and other markings of the fore wing are in 

 a measure repeated upon one hind wing, a conspicuous, dark- 

 surrounded white spot in its middle simulating the white 

 base of the reniform stigma; the other hind wing— the right 

 — is quite normal. This specimen was captured in llight 

 near Hendon, Middlesex. 



On the wing in June and July. 



