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discal spot ; hind marginal region from the second line often 

 broadly pale purple-brown, or else equally divided into a band 

 of this colour, and a paler outer band of similar clouds on the 

 ground colour, the division, which often presents a row of 

 paler dots, being the subterminal line ; hind margin regularly 

 dotted with black ; cilia yellow-brown. Hind wings rather 

 long, somewhat squared at the angles and but little rounded 

 behind ; colour silky- white, minutely and faintly dotted with 

 purple-brown ; often with a slender, very obscure and very 

 oblique, transverse dusky line near the base ; and below a 

 slender similar but nearly straight central line, immediately 

 above which the central spot is just visible as a dark dot ; 

 hind margin faintly dotted with purple-black ; cilia white, 

 clouded faintly with pale purple. Female stout, with the 

 abdomen almost ovate and pointed; antennge filiform; the 

 small flaps which represent the fore wings curiously shaped 

 and squarely cut off, pale yellowish-brown with the first and 

 second lines visible, dark brown; hind wings still more 

 curious, rounded off in front, elongated behind, so as to form 

 a crescent-like or sickle-shaped lobe of the same colour, 

 barred in the middle with dark brown ; abdomen thick, pale 

 brown with a whitish dorsal line, and numerous short black 

 cross-streaks on the sides; legs long, light brown shaded 

 with darker. 



Underside of the fore wings of the male whitish-brown 

 with smoky shading, rather browner toward the costa ; discal 

 spot and second line cloudily indicated; hind margin 

 yellowish-white dusted with pale purplish-brown; central 

 spot distinct, black-brown ; hind margin of all the wings 

 regularly dotted with black. Body and legs very pale 

 brown. 



Variable in the degree of smoky clouding of the fore wings, 

 some specimens being quite without it, others devoid of it so 

 far as the second line, while many have the suffusion over 

 the whole wing ; every intermediate shade occurring. In 

 Ireland the same shades of smoky clouding are found with 



