2 LEPIDOPTERA. 



long, slender and tapering, paler piirplish-drab ; lateral and 

 anal tufts small but distinct, of the same colour. Fore wings 

 broad yet pointed ; costa arched at the base and thence 

 nearly straight to the apex, which is sharply angnlated ; hind 

 margin faintly retuse, then fnll and gently curved off", but 

 the anal angle well marked ; dorsal margin almost straight ; 

 general colour pale reddish-brown or reddish-drab; first line 

 red-brown, very slender, oblique and slightly curved ; second 

 line very oblique, straight, strongly marked, red-brown 

 shaded off" a little inwards, outwardly bordered with white ; 

 beyond this is a faint, slender, rather waved subterminal line 

 of the same reddish-brown ; discal spot a round purple-brown 

 dot ; cilia glossy pale purplish-grey. Hind wings very ample, 

 rounded behind, but the apical and anal angles rather full ; 

 silky-white, faintly tinged over the hinder area with purple ; 

 from the dorsal margin arises a partial, straight, cloudy 

 brown transverse stripe which usually fades out before it 

 reaches the middle of the wing ; cilia pale purplish-grey. 

 Female extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale purple-brown, tinged in 

 the middle with smoke-colour, and beyond faintly barred 

 with the same, shading off" to shining white along the dorsal 

 margin ; discal spot smoky-black. Hind wings pale puri)le 

 dusted with brown ; the nervures tinged with red-brown ; 

 central spot smoky-black, obscure and very small ; towards 

 the hind margin is a series of smoky-brown dots on the 

 nervures ; cilia all purplish-white, shaded with smoky dashes. 

 Body and legs purplish-white or pale purple-brown. 



Hardly variable except a little in the distinctness of the 

 markings, and especially in the intensity of the colour of the 

 straight second line ; but a specimen which I took in Ran- 

 worth Fen is of a very pale straw-colour with the markino-s 

 excessively faint. This is the only variety in this species, of 

 any note, which has come under my observation. 



On the wing in May and June, but occasionally, in the 

 South, at the end of lipril. 



