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and suggesting a central band ; beyond this is a broad band 

 of the same colour occupying the whole of the apex, hind 

 margin, and anal angle of the wing, its inner edge sinuous 

 and deeply excavated in the middle ; cilia glossy dark slate 

 colour. Hind wings rather long and ample, hind margin 

 rounded, but a little sinuous ; anal angle rather squared ; 

 white and very silky ; just before the middle is usually a 

 transverse row, or broken band, of slate-black spots or 

 blotches ; two larger spots of the same colour occupy the 

 apical region, and one still larger the anal angle, while 

 between them is often a dot or two ; or very often some or all 

 are joined into a marginal band ; in them there are frequently 

 white dots ; cilia slate-black, but against any white portion 

 dashed with white. Female very similar. 



Undersides of all the wings accurately as upon the upper. 

 Body and legs slate-grey powdered with white. 



Exceedingly variable, in the directions already to some 

 extent indicated — in the breadth and degree in which the 

 marginal bands are complete, or broken into blotches, par- 

 ticularly in the hind wings ; also in the absence or presence 

 of a central band of spots of the same colour, and extending 

 in almost any degree in dots, spots, or a stripe, to the hind 

 wings. Occasionally this is filled in as an unbroken, but 

 most irregular, central stripe through all the wings. In 

 specimens in which the white area is large the margin of the 

 fore wings towards the apex is often dotted with white, or 

 even divided by a white line, and along with this it some- 

 times occurs that the dai'k margin of the hind wings is 

 reduced to extreme narrowness. Much more rarely speci- 

 mens occur wholly of a pure white, or even creamy-white, 

 except one or two dark blotches on the costal margin of the 

 fore wings ; one such is in the collection of the late Mr. H, 

 Doubleday at Bethnal Green Museum ; another has been 

 taken near Lynn by Mr. E. A. Atmore. One in Mr. S.Webb's 

 collection is similar, another has in addition a spot at the 

 anal angle, but all the, spots are very faint ; and one, having 



