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followed at a short distance by the usual second line, of the 

 same colour, but often only visible as a series of minute dots 

 upon uervures, always showing these dots most distinctly 

 where they are united into a slender line; hind margin 

 ■edged by a series of short slendei- purple-brown streaks, 

 sometimes forming a fine line; cilia glossy, yellow-brown. 

 Hind wings rounded behind, or else showing the faintest 

 possible angle in the hind margin, S(|uared at the anal angle, 

 and in some degree at the apex ; paler yellow-brown ; near 

 the base is a very slender purple-brown transverse line : in 

 the middle, a slender stripe very similar to that of the fore 

 wings ; and beyond it a very fine delicate line of the same 

 colour, undulating and dotted and slightly angulated in its 

 middle; extreme hind margin edged with a purple-brown 

 line or series of streaks ; cilia pale yellow-brown. Female 

 accurately similar, but with simple antenna? and a rather 

 stouter body. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale yellow-brown, 

 with a deeper tinge along the costa, and a paler along the 

 dorsal margin. Hind wings of a more creamy yellow ; all 

 the lines slenderly indicated, in each, in smoky-black. Body 

 and legs whitish-brown ; the tarsi redder. 



Variable, as already indicated, in the distinctness of the 

 first and second lines, and in their connected condition, or 

 resolution into small dots; also rather uncertain as to the 

 more distinct central stripe ; in this last the mutability seems 

 to be nearly confined to the second generation, this stripe 

 being in it sometimes rather indistinct, and often affected by 

 a considerable clouding of the ground colour with tawny. One 

 such, in the collection of Dr. Mason, is reddish-ochreous, with 

 the stripe purple-red. On the other hand, a specimen of this 

 second generation reared by Major A. Ficklin is absolutely 

 devoid of the transverse lines and of the tawny clouding, being 

 of a unicolorous soft yellow-fulvous ; and Mr. H. J. Turner has 

 a ((uite similar example. In less rare, but still very uncommon, 

 specimens the central stripe is black and_most conspicuous — 



