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dorsal region ; cilia whitish-brown. Female very nearly 

 apterous, the wings being only represented by minute black- 

 brown narrow flaps ; antennae simple, reddish-brown ; head 

 and thorax dark brown with a hoary tinge on the upper 

 surface ; abdomen short and thick, black-brown, faintly 

 dusted on the anterior segments with red and hoary scales ; 

 legs brown, the tarsi blacker and barred with pale brown. 



Underside of the male dusky white, dusted with brown, 

 the fore wings showing cloudy or smoky indications of the 

 dark markings of the upper side ; hind wings much dusted 

 with olive-brown. Body and legs pale brown. 



Always and everywhere variable, and usually in certain 

 lines, as in part already indicated. In the paler forms the 

 portion of the fore wings between the first and second lines 

 is occasionall}'^ white, but usually dusted, as already described, 

 with brown, the other portions ranging in every shade from 

 the palest possible brown clouding through every degree of 

 darker brown or blackish clouding and dusting, the colour 

 sometimes scattered into cloudy blotches, in other cases 

 forming a broad dark transverse band attached to the second 

 line, the rest of the wing paler in various degrees. In these 

 forms very often the two transverse lines are slender — mere 

 edges of the dark colour — but occasionally they are thick, 

 black or deep brown and very conspicuous. The most strik- 

 ing and constant variety is different from those described, 

 its base and the broad band outside the second line are black, 

 conspicuous and brightly marked, the hind marginal area 

 also black or clouded with the same ; the central band some- 

 times brightly white, but often having a little black dusting, 

 yet usually without the central shade. Another and far less 

 common form has the black or black-brown clouding extended 

 also to the central band, so that the fore wings are of a 

 uniform dark colouring, yet not smoothly so, the markings 

 being only coarsely obscured. A specimen taken in Eichmond 

 Park by Mr. Percy Richards has the fore wings wholly of a 

 curious vinous colour, a shade of purple-red-brown, darkest 

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