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with brown ; four successive oblique cloudy-brown or black- 

 brown transverse stripes occupy most part of the surface, the 

 first curved, the second and third often partially united ; 

 hind margin broadly of the same colour forming a fifth and 

 broader stripe ; between these last stripes is usually a pale 

 yellow or whitish spot opposite the middle of the hind 

 margin ; cilia white chequered with brown. Hind wrings 

 rather elongated, rounded behind ; ochreous, dusted all over 

 with brown ; central spot dark brown, before it is a transverse 

 brown stripe and beyond it two more, besides a broader one 

 along the hind margin, this last being usually broken into 

 large spots, each of which throws out a brown dash upon the 

 otherwise dull yellow cilia. Female very different; antennae 

 simple ; body short ; fore wings narrower ; hind wings 

 shorter and having their hind margin flattened so that the 

 apical and anal angles are more decided ; colour white dusted 

 with black, the stripes on the fore and hind wings placed as 

 in the male but narrower, sharper and more definite, black or 

 brown-black ; cilia all chequered, black and white. 



Underside of all the wings of the male bright ochreous, 

 slightly dusted with brown, the stripes of the upper side 

 scantily and brokenly indicated ; cilia chequered, yellow and 

 black-brown ; of the female white with the dark markings of 

 the upper side accurately reproduced. 



Variation in this species is great, and in the female very 

 irregular. Males range from quite a yellow-brown, from 

 paucity of the brown dusting, to those which are almost 

 black-bi-own from its intensity, and beyond this to a smooth 

 even dull black without speckling; its bands are less variable, 

 yet the second and third on the fore wings are often united 

 from the dorsal margin to the middle, and the fourth and 

 marginal bands frequently coalesce. A specimen exhibited 

 b}^ Mr. Goldthwaite at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London in 1886 was of a bright orange colour, with 

 black blotches but no transverse stripes ; two in Mr. Sydney 

 Webb's collection are pale ochreous with the stripes very 



