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■with a dustino- of redder colour ; first line slender, curved, 

 obscurely red-brown or leaden-brown ; second line singularly 

 perpendicular and straight, of the same colour, and forming 

 the outer edge of a cloud of rich chocolate-red, which softly 

 shades the greater portion of the area to the base, but is 

 more distinct as a sort of central band, in which a curved 

 oblique central line is faintly visible ; the broad area outside 

 the second line is the palest portion of the wing, and becomes 

 still whiter toward the costa; discal spot a small semi- 

 transparent white lunule edged with brown, but often hardly 

 perceptible ; the portion of the hind margin next the apex is 

 occupied b}' a large, lunate, orange-red, or bright fulvous 

 spot ; cilia pale fulvous, clouded with brown and tipped 

 with yellowish-white. Hind wings broad, very strongly 

 crenulated behind, two pairs of jDoints being esjiecially pro- 

 duced ; between them is a rather deeply hollowed concavity ; 

 yellowish-white plentifully dusted with tawny-red ; central 

 spot a hyaline lunule edged with leaden-black, and placed in 

 a transverse tawny stripe which is sharply bounded behind 

 by a leaden-black line, and more faintly by similar lines in 

 front; cilia tawny, very short. Antenna3 of the female 

 simple and body stout ; the wings all paler, often tending 

 toward pale dull reddish-yellow, and the chocolate-red shading- 

 paler and fainter ; the discal spots are covered with white 

 scales and not diaphanous. In the second brood the male is 

 of a paler, softer colouring, and the lines less distinct; the 

 female yellow-drab, a little dusted with' red-brown scales; 

 the transverse lines shar23ly defined, but the second more 

 waved and curved so as to bend inward a little at the dorsal 

 margin. 



On the underside the colour and markings are as upon the 

 upper, exce2)t that the portion of the fore wings before the 

 second line and the central transverse band of the hind 

 wings are of a richer and brighter orange-chestnut, and the 

 hinder area of the hind wing is more fully dusted with 

 fulvous. Body and legs fulvous, the tarsi white in front. 



