28 LEPIDOPTERA. 



simple but ciliated, p.ale browu barred with paler ; palpi 

 small, slender, pointed and iip-curved, placed rather away 

 from the head, dull brown; head and thorax reddish-drab, 

 the latter thick ; abdomen very pale brown. Fore wings 

 elongated, but rather broad ; costa arched ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin much rounded, hardly oblique ; 

 coloiir reddish-drab, of a coarse yet greasy-looking texture ; 

 basal area mainly occupied by a broad black transverse band 

 of which the outer margin is indented, and immediately 

 followed by a more narrow, deep black, parallel band, the 

 enclosed stripe being the ordinary first line ; second line at 

 some distance beyond the middle, an upright, repeatedly 

 angulated rivulet of the ground colour, between two rippled 

 parallel black stripes, from the outer of which some black 

 dusting fades gradually to the hind margin, and is there 

 edged with regular black dots ; cilia greyish-butt". Hiud 

 Avings ample, rounded behind, shining smokj'-white ; the 

 hind margin edged with pale brown ; cilia yellowish-white. 

 Female similar, sometimes larger ; hind wings often more 

 darkly tinged with smoke-colour. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-bufi; ; the costa edged 

 with pale brown, and spotted near the apex with dull black. 

 Hind wings white, edged with brown. Body and legs pale 

 brown. 



Variable mainly in size. 



On the wing from the end of June till August, or even 

 September. 



Larva tolerably stout, head tlatteued and smaller than the 

 second segment, bright chestnut-brown, marked with black- 

 ish-brown ; dorsal and anal plates shining chestnut-brown, 

 the former paler in front, but broadly blotched on its hind 

 margin with darker brown, ground colour of the back and 

 sides deep ttesh colour, becoming gradually paler and rather 

 ochreous on the undersurface ; an interrupted dorsal line of 

 much darker flesh-colour shows plainly on the front of each 



