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the base being of the pale brown or ashy-grey ground colour ; 

 second line obscurely red-brown edged by an ashy-grey shade 

 and forming the outer margin of the central dark band ; 

 subterminal line nearly straight and very conspicuous, dark 

 brown or red-brown, bordered outside with white or yellowish- 

 white ; orbicular and reniform stigmata both large but placed 

 far apart, indicated only by their slender yellowish-white 

 margins; cilia reddish-grey. Hind wings broad; the hind 

 margin rather sinuous; colour pale smoky-brown with a 

 purplish flush, rather darkest along the hind margin; cilia 

 dull white. Female sometimes similar, often darker purple- 

 brown, with the markings, except the subterminal line, more 

 obscured ; antennaB simple ; abdomen thick and stumpy, with 

 a very small anal tuft. Although this darker colour seems to 

 be the rule in the female, and the more hoary tint that in the 

 male, the reverse obtains in both sexes not uncommonly. 



Underside of the fore wings ashy- white dusted with purple- 

 brown ; reniform stigma purple-brown, or edged with this 

 colour, followed by an obscure transverse cloudy-brown 

 stripe; hind wings pale grey dusted with brown; central 

 spot looped, purple-brown, followed by an obscure transverse 

 cloudy- brown line. Body ashy-brown ; legs ashy-white tinged 

 with purple ; leg-tufts purplish-white. In the darker forms 

 the colour of the underside is intensified. 



Constantly variable in the lines laid down above, so as 

 always to divide into the pale and dark forms, irrespective 

 of sex; but in each there are modifications of the dark 

 or pale ground colour, and variations in the breadth and 

 intensity of the central transverse band. In some this 

 is quite absorbed in the general dark colour; or, on the 

 other hand, reduced to a condition very little darker than 

 the palest ashy-grey forms. The most beautiful is that in 

 which the pale colour becomes whitish-grey, while the central 

 band remains dark purple-brown; but extreme forms are 

 found having the fore wings almost of a liver-colour, or, on 

 the other hand, of a glossy grey-black. 



