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one above it ; first line hardly indicated by three or four scat- 

 tered dark dots; second line a more complete and direct 

 series of minute black dots; subterminal line conspicuous, 

 fulvous, edged outside with yellow, straight from close "to 

 the anal angle to near the tip of the wing, where it is broken 

 and set back; orbicular and reniform stigmata large, but 

 only perceptible by most faint fulvous outline, except that 

 the latter has its base filled by a black spot ; to this is united 

 a widely elbowed central shade consisting of a slender series 

 of red-black cloudy atoms; cilia crenulated, ochreous, with 

 an undulated fulvous line along the base. Hind wino-s not 

 large, the hind margin sinuous; colour smoky-black, paler, 

 and having a golden gloss along the costal margin ; extreme 

 hind margin and the rather long cilia reddish-yellow. Female 

 but little stouter, with threadlike autennse, otherwise accu- 

 rately similar. . 



Underside of all the wings yellow, fore wings having a 

 large smoky cloud in the middle; reniform stigma smoky- 

 black followed by a similar partial transverse stripe; costa 

 and cilia orange-yellow; central spot of the hind wings 

 large, smoky-black, followed by a faint smoky transverse 

 stripe; remainder of the surface dusted with black-brown. 

 Body and legs fulvous. 



Bather variable in the ground colour, from dull pale 

 yellow to light fulvous or reddish-ochreous ; also in the 

 presence or absence of the black spot in the reniform stio-ma 

 and of the central shade, these being most frequently obliter- 

 ated in specimens from the North of England and South of 

 Scotland. An example of the opposite tendency, in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Sydney Webb, has the first line distinct, black, 

 broadly bent, and excessively indented, and the second line 

 also distinctly black and disposed in sharp crescents, the 

 more usual markings all present. In all variations the sub- 

 terminal line remains fairly distinct. 



On the wing in September and October, and, in very mild 

 autumns, even in November. 



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