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Antennae black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax umbreous 

 mottled with paler brown ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore 

 wings narrow, the costa folded at the base and tlatly arched, 

 apex bluntly angulated ; black-brown ; on the middle of the 

 dorsal margin is a large, flattened, white, whitish or pale 

 brown blotch, edged at the back by a deep black streak, 

 occupying the place of the margin of the basal blotch — this 

 and the other normal markings being absorbed in the ground 

 colonr — the anterior and posterior margins of this pale blotch 

 being hoth vcnj ohliquc ; close to the hind margin is an 

 obscure ocellus, above which are one or two white sub- 

 marginal streaks ; costa dotted with geminated whitish 

 streaks ; cilia smoky brown. Hind wings and their cilia 

 smoky brown. Female similar, but with the costa plain, 

 and often having the dorsal pale blotch obscured by dark 

 clouding. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden black, with twin white 

 costal streaks, and the cilia shaded with white. Hind wings 

 pale lead colour. 



Variable in the colour of the dorsal blotch, which very 

 often is partially, or wholly, shaded with brown. Much like 

 the preceding species, but smaller and with even narrower 

 fore wings, but the most obvious distinction is in the shape 

 of the dorsal pale blotch. Occasional specimens, especially 

 in the second brood, are sometimes suffused with pale 

 brown. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June, and a second 

 generation in August and September. 



Larva purplish brown on the back, dusky flesh colour 

 beneath and in the incisions of the segments ; spiracles very 

 minute and faintly darker ; raised dots shining brown, 

 scarcely distinguishable unless examined with a lens ; head 

 brown, lighter in front, dorsal j)late black-brown with a 

 whitish middle line. (A. Balding.) 



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