3i6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



yellow gloss ; costal region pearly pale yellow ; extreme hind 

 margin also yellow ; cilia yellowish- white. Female extremely 

 similar but with a stouter, more conical and pointed abdomen. 

 Underside of the fore wings pale yellow clouded with 

 ochreous, and in the middle with smoke-colour, which is 

 abruptly cut off beyond by a similar transverse stripe from 

 the costa. Hind wings yellowish-white, dusted with purplish- 

 red along the costal region and apex, with yellow elsewhere, 

 beyond the middle is a slender partial purple transverse line. 

 Body and legs yellowish-buff. 



Always and everywhere variable in the colour of the fore 

 wings, in the distinctness of the transverse lines and central 

 shade, and often in the degree in which the latter is so 

 spread as to give the appearance of a broad central band to 

 the space between the two lines. A wonderful example of 

 this last tendency in the cabinet of Mr. G. T. Porritt, and 

 taken in South Yorkshire, has the broad central band referred 

 to of a leaden black, most strikingly set off by the ground 

 colour, which is pale drab. One somewhat similar was taken 

 in the New Forest by Mr. McEae, but its hind margin also 

 is dark. Dr. Mason has a specimen with fore wings of an 

 orange-red colour throughout, with hardly a trace of the 

 transverse markings ; and another, a very large example, 

 having the central band and subterminal line dark brown, 

 so that it bears a most curious resemblance to Crocallis 

 clinguaria ! In Mr. S. J. Capper's collection is one having 

 the fore wings brick-red, without transverse lines ; and 

 another dark smoky-brown, with the transverse lines clear 

 white. Mr. P. M. Bright possesses a specimen of an exqui- 

 site rosy-jDink-brown, with the central band a little deeper 

 in colour, and the transverse lines white. Other specimens 

 are dark smoky-brown, with the lines, stigmata and apex 

 ochreous, or exquisitely clouded with bright light pinkish- 

 red. It would be a difficult task to exhaust the variations of 

 this insect. 



On the wins: in Julv and Ansrust. 



