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ronnded-ont and fnlly ciliated ; general colour brownish-drab 

 with abundant fine dusting of chocolate-red; the whole 

 middle area is occupied b}' a very broad velvety golden- 

 brown, or chocolate, band, the inner edge of which is the 

 first line, rather waved and sometimes darkened, the outer 

 being the second line, toothed and angulated from the costa 

 to the middle, excavated below it; cilia of the ground colour. 

 Hind wings broad, rounded behind, the apex and anal angle 

 fully developed ; colour and dusting as in the fore wings, 

 but paler towards the costal edge ; a narrow central transverse 

 but incomplete chocolate stripe arises from the dorsal margin 

 and barely extends one-half across the wing, it is shaded oft' 

 on its upper side ; cilia reddish-brown. Female very similar 

 but rather larger and stouter, its antennfe faintly dentate. 



Underside wholly bright golden-brown ; the fore wings 

 shaded off paler to the dorsal margin ; the hind wings 

 abundantly dusted with red-brown, and from the middle out- 

 ward faintly shaded with purple-red. Body golden-brown ; 

 legs more yellow-brown. 



Not very variable, but some of those in which the band 

 of the fore wings is darker chocolate have also all the wings 

 dusted with purplish-chocolate or purple-brown, the more 

 purple tint showing itself towards the anal angle of the hind 

 wings. Some specimens reared by Mrs. Hutchinson at Leo- 

 minster, Herefordshire, have the band of the fore wings 

 somewhat greenish-brown. The form found in some parts 

 of Asia, in which the dark band is wholly or partially oblite- 

 rated by a general stippling of purple-brown, is not repre- 

 sented here. 



On the wing from the end of April till June. 



Larva twig-like, long and slender, having a transverse 

 bifid dorsal hump on the ninth segment and two small 

 dorsal tubercles each on the tenth and twelfth ; also three 

 very minute anal points; head rather large, bifid, truncate in 

 front, ochreous-brown, the mouth yellowish ; body ochreous- 



