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the base is a faint transverse pale purple line, and beyond 

 the central spot another ; cilia ochreous. Female sub-apterous, 

 the four minute inefficient flaps of wings brown, barred with 

 dark umbreous, and having very long hairy brown cilia, which 

 are tipped with white ; antennas simple, smoky-black, barred 

 with white ; head and thorax light umbreous ; abdomen thick, 

 similar, with a yellow dorsal line, the segments barred with 

 dark umbreous, and edged with tufts of white scales ; legs 

 dark brown barred with white or yellow. 



Underside of all the wings, in the male, rich yellow- 

 ochreous ; the discal and central spots purple-black ; near 

 the base of the wings is a continuous cloudy obscure purplish 

 stripe, and beyond the middle another, more curved. Body 

 and legs ochreous ; the latter barred with dusky purple. 



Not very variable, except in the depth of the yellow colour 

 of the fore wings, and the presence or absence of the row of 

 cloudy spots in the subterminal region ; but sometimes a 

 faint purple stripe lies along the outside of the second line ; 

 while in others the transverse lines of tne hind wings aui 

 obliterated. In the collection of Mr. G. T. Porritt is a 

 specimen of a distinctly brown colour, taken in Yorkshire. 



On the wing from October till December, or occasionally 

 January. 



Larva moderately slender ; viewed from above it apjDears 

 of nearly uniform thickness throughout ; but viewed side- 

 ways segments seven to ten are rather stouter than the rest ; 

 head broad, flattened in front, rounded at the sides, equal in 

 width to the second segment, which, with the two following, 

 is also a little flattened ; the fifth more cylindrical, and 

 therefore apparently thinner ; skin tough, furnished with a 

 few bristles ; back of the second segment glossy, suggesting 

 a sort of plate there ; on the twelfth segment is a pair of 

 rather conspicuous warts. The ground colour of the back 

 dull pale ochreous-yellow, and through it runs a number of 

 fine brownish lines, not parallel throughout, but approaching 



