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straight but short ; anal angle distinct ; colour yellow-brown 

 or reddish-drab, more tinged with red along the costa ; first 

 line erect, rather thick, indented or even faintly angulated, 

 red, red-black, or brown-black, blacker on the nervures ; 

 second line of the same colour, thick and cloudy, more 

 oblique, broadened into a band as it approaches the costa, 

 and obscuring an elongated black or red discal dot ; along 

 the hind margin is a cloudy red or red-black stripe, which, 

 however, is often very faint ; cilia yellow-drab. Hind wings 

 long, pointed at the apex, flatly rounded behind, shining 

 dark smoky-brown ; cilia rather long, white, with a smoky- 

 black basal line. Female a little larger, stouter, the anteunm 

 threadlike, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy dark smoky-brown ; 

 dorsal margin whiter, cilia paler. Hind wings shining dark 

 smoke-colour. Body and legs yellow-brown. 



Constantly varying in the depth of the ground colour, as 

 already indicated, from yellow drab to red-brown or dark 

 olive-brown, and in that of the transverse stripes, from red 

 to black ; much more rarely an extension of black colour 

 takes jjlace from the transverse stripes, one specimen in 

 my own collection having the basal area to the first line 

 blackened, while others have the middle area between the 

 first and second stripes filled in, or partially so, with dark 

 brown and black. 



On the wing from June till August. 



Larva short and thick, but it nearly doubles its length 

 when crawling, thoiagh the hinder part is stiil thick and some- 

 times very " baggy " ; segments deeply divided and having 

 transverse folds on the skin ; colour dull porcelain-white 

 with a faint bluish tinge ; subdoisal lines and also the 

 spiracles indicated by depressed dots; head deeplj^ lobed, 

 light chestnut, the jaws brown ; dorsal plate pale brown, 

 dotted along its hinder edge with black ; anal plate pale 

 brown ; legs black. After hybernation much shrunken ; short. 



