66 LKl'lDOPTRRA. 



shaded with paler drab or white and dusted with black ; 

 discal spot indicated l;y two small dots formed of black 

 dusting — sometimes obliterated— no indication of the usual 

 transverse lines ; cilia pale buff'. Hind wings ample, rounded 

 behind, smoky white and glossy : cilia shining silky-white. 

 I'Vmale smaller, the body stouter, but the fore wings shorter 

 and narrower : the hind wings a little darker ; otherwise 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy, drab or reddish-drab ; 

 the nervures raised into wrinkles ; hind wings shining white. 

 Body and legs whitish-drab. 



Variable as indicated above, from smooth unicolorous 

 yellowish-buff to red-buff and grey-drab; or with a shade of 

 red-buff through the length of the fore wing in the middle, or 

 shades along the larger nervures ; but the most striking and 

 noticeable form is that in which a broad dull white stripe 

 runs the whole length of the costal margin. This occurs in 

 all the varying shades of colour, but is perhaps most frei(uent, 

 as well as most striking, in the grey-drab forms ; and is in 

 these and others often accompanied by a decided darkening 

 or increasing of the red or grey or yellow-buff colour imme- 

 diately below, so as to form a strong dark border to this 

 white stripe. This is the form which seems sometimes to 

 liave been mistaken for iiy*vV/t/(/« f(ir,rll« (hoisch'vaHuJh'). 

 Another variety found on the Kast coast bvMr. tl. F. ilathew 

 lias very distinct blarl. dusting on the nervures, or at the 

 margin of the white costal stripe. 

 On the wing from June till August. 



Lak\a moderately stout, cylindrical, head much smaller 

 than the second segment, within which it is often partially 

 withdrawn, pale reddish-brown ; colour of the body pale 

 orange-yellow ; dorsal line faintly red ; and there are two 

 equally faint r'ed squared bars on the back of each segment, 

 extending to the subdorsal region ; dorsal and anal plates, 

 and the spiracles and raised dots, of the ground colour ; 



