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costa very straight ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin 

 below it perpendicular, very full and expanded, crenulated, 

 much rounded off toward the anal angle; dorsal margin 

 rather full, softly ciliated; colour pale ochreous or yellow- 

 drab, sometimes minutely dusted with brown ; first line nearly 

 straight, perpendicular; second almost erect from the dorsal 

 margin, then curved gently outward and with a bold sweep, 

 again up to the costal margin ; both red-brown and usually 

 enclosing a central darker band of some shade of brown, red- 

 brown or yellow-brown, though sometimes of only the ground 

 colour ; discal spot large and conspicuous, ovate, brown-black ; 

 along the hind margin is a more or less incomplete row of 

 small brown dots ; cilia yellow-drab, sometimes tinged with 

 tawny. Hind wings rather broad, rounded behind; pale 

 ochreous, sometimes dusted with red-brown toward the hinder 

 area ; central spot small, brown ; beyond it is a slender faint 

 transverse red-brown line ; hind margin dotted with minute 

 brown spots; cilia pale yellow. Female very similar, but 

 with simple antennae, and the abdomen large and thick. 



Underside of all the wings yellowish-ochreous, dusted 

 with red-brown ; but the dorsal margin of the fore wings is 

 silky yellowish-white ; the central spot and the succeeding 

 transverse line in each wing is reproduced, red-brown ; hind 

 margins dotted with brown ; body and legs jrellow-ochreous. 



There is variation in the colour of the central band of the 

 fore wings, as already indicated, through many shades of 

 umbreous, yellow-brown, and even red-brown, in the darker 

 shades often accompanied by dusting of the same in the 

 area beyond the second line ; at the same time the two lines 

 enclosing the band become also darker or paler; but in 

 Mr, S. J. Capper's collection is a fine example of the male in 

 which these two lines are much thickened and very dark, 

 but the contained space is only of the pale ground colour, 

 the stripe on the hind wings being also very dark ; another, 

 of a pale fulvous colour, and very silky, has no trace what- 

 ever of either line. This last is a Scottish specimen, and 



