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inaro-in edgecl with a reddish-browu line ; cilia wliite, tino-ed 

 with pink. Feniale extremely similar, antenna^ simple; 

 abdomen stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings white, tinged with purplish - 

 red along the costa and hind margin, and dusted toward the 

 apex with the same ; reniform stigma distinct, smoky-black, 

 followed by a similar partial, or complete, transverse stripe ; 

 cilia light red. Hind wings white, central and hind marginal 

 regions dusted with light red ; central spot black ; halfway 

 between it and the hind margin is a slender transverse pink 

 line; cilia white tinged with light red. Body and lef^s 

 whitish-buff tinged with liglit red, leg-tufts white. 



Usually but little variable, though occasional specimens 

 are paler or have the reddish tint over the buff partially 

 replaced by a greyish shading ; but in the West, and particu- 

 larly in Herefordshire, the opposite tendency is displayed, so 

 that specimens, for which I am indebted to Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 are not only of a deeper red, but have the colouring of the 

 central band coarser and deeper, and the upper stigmata 

 darker and more conspicuous, especially where, in some 

 specimens, the squared spot between them is of a pale orano-e- 

 colour; in these there is a waved slender smoky-black line 

 across the hind wings. In the collection of Mr. P. M. Brio-ht 

 is a specimen having the thorax and fore wings entirely of a 

 pale ochreous yellow; another having them of a smooth 

 brownish slate-colour tinged in the middle of the wings with 

 orange ; and a third wholly of a rich deep brick-red,^except 

 that the lines and stigmata are faintly outlined with orange. 

 One obtained in the New Forest by Mr. W. M. Christy is 

 somewhat similar but darker, and the orange lines are broad 

 and distinct ; another from Emsworth, Hants, has the central 

 band of the fore wings broadly and strongly dusted with 

 smoky-black, the first and second lines more distinctly tinged 

 with the same, and a small degree of similar dusting over the 

 remainder of the wings. In these the hind wings remain 

 unaffected. 



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