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rather full. Fore wings moderately narrow, elongated ; the 

 costa very flatly arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin nearly 

 straight ; colour creamy-white, minutely dusted and flecked 

 with brown dots and minute streaks ; in the middle of the 

 wing two pale ochreous transverse stripes enclose a glistening 

 or silvery stripe, and the outer oclireons stripe is edged with 

 the same colour ; towards the ajDex are three oblique ochreous 

 streaks from the costa, divided by glistening threads; apex 

 edged with silvery black, which is continued along the hind 

 margin as a row of partially cleft deep black spots, each 

 centred by a spot of brilliantly burnished golden sheen ;, 

 cilia pale cream colour, divided and tipped by light brown 

 lines. Hind wings ample, flatly rounded behind ; shining 

 silky white, with a pale brown line along the hind margin 

 and faint shades of the same running up the nervures ; cilia 

 exquisitely silky white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale brown ; of the 

 hind wings shining white. Body and legs pale brown. 



On the wing from August to October, and after hyberna- 

 tion in February and jNIarch. 



Lak\a and Pup.a apparently unknown. 



The title of this species to be considered British imd of 

 Br'dl'iJi extraction is extremelj- doubtful ; the time and 

 circumstances of capture of most of our very few speciuieus 

 pointing significantly toward the possibility of accidental 

 importation while hybernating. The first recorded British 

 specimen is by Haworth, whij oays that it was lakea in the 

 suburbs of London veiy early in the year ; the next was in 

 Glamorganshire, in a lane, in the middle of Mai'ch 18G1. 

 Then one was captured at night at Dumfries in 1865, and 

 three were said to have been taken near Liverpool in March 

 18G9, by working-class collectors ; ten years later a single 

 specimen was found sitting upon a grass stem, nt Folkestone, 

 on August 4', 187'.', by Mr. Sydney Webb — this being, I 

 think, almost the only instance cf an autumn capture here 



