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A. Fore wings white with grey markings and a large blue- 

 black ocellus L. Miltocdlana. 



A-. Fore wings red brown, with darker basal blotch and 

 white or pale brown dorsal blotch. L. pfulderiana. 



A^. Fore wings slate-grey, with faintly blacker markings. 



L. cinercann. 



A^. Fore wings black-brown, or dark grey, dorsal blotch 

 orange or red, or pale grey, or obliterated. L. niselia. 



1. L. subocellana. Don; campoliliana, Tr. — Ex- 

 panse -i inch (12 nun.). Fore wings white with a grey basal 

 blotch, and a great blue-black ocellus above the anal angle. 



Antennas greyish white ; palpi, head, and thorax dull 

 white; abdomen pale grey. Fore wings narrow at the 

 base, where is a deep costal fold, costa otherwise gently 

 arched; apex bluntly augulated ; white dusted faintly with 

 grey ; basal blotch a group of erect brown streaks, not reach- 

 ing the costa ; area beyond the middle broadly clouded with 

 black and blue-black, into which run alternate black costal 

 lines and dots ; in the blue-black area above the anal angle 

 is a large steel-blue ocellus ; hind margin edged with a deep 

 black line ; cilia white, tipped with black. Hind wings 

 frosted, smoky brown ; cilia whiter. Female similar, but 

 without the costal fold. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown, costa dotted 

 with white ; anal angle white. Hind wings smoky white. 



Usually not variable, but in the collection of the late Mr. 

 H. Doubleday, in Bethnal Green Museum, is a specimen 

 almost wholly white. 



On the wing in May and June, and casually, but rarely, in 

 July and August. 



Larva yellowish, with visible internal dorsal vessel and 

 rather shining raised dots ; head rather honey yellow, with 

 two black markings. 



September and October in drawn down leaves of sallow, 



