78 LEPIDOPTERA. 



white and backed with dark brown, the rest of its course 

 scarcely suggested ; orbicular stigma large, pale brown, almost 

 double, or shaped like a cottage loaf, each half containing a 

 dark brown cloud ; reniform stigma larger and very similar, 

 pale grey-brown edged with black and containing small dark 

 brown clouds ; central area of the wing around these stigmata, 

 and between the two lines, clouded with purplish-umbreous, 

 a shading of the same being continued obliquely toward the 

 apex of the wing ; a row of similar small clouds lies before 

 the hind margin, that nearest the anal angle being much the 

 largest, and also enclosing a black streak ; another black 

 streak runs inward from one of the smaller clouds in the 

 middle of the row, and a third lies before the apex ; above 

 this last, on the costal margin, are three white dots ; portions 

 of some of the nervures, with their tips, are streaked with 

 black ; hind margin and cilia very charmingly laced, the 

 former being edged with black lunules separated by whitish 

 dashes, the latter pale grey intersected with brown lines. 

 Hind wings rounded, black-brown, rather paler at the base, 

 cilia white. Female very similar. 



Underside of the fore wings black-brown, basal portion of 

 dorsal margin pearly- white ; cilia dusted with white. Hind 

 wings black-brown beyond the middle, the basal half smoky- 

 white, dusted toward the costa with dark brown ; central 

 spot black ; cilia white. Body pale brownish-grey ; leg-tufts 

 pale brown ; legs brown, the front tibias whitish-grey. 



Apparently not variable. 



On the wing in June and the beginning of July. 



Larva of moderate stoutness, cylindrical, though tapering 

 a little in the last three segments to the extremity ; head 

 rounded and scarcely smaller than the second segment, green, 

 with groups of very minute black dots, and the ocelli black ; 

 skin entirely without gloss ; ground colour rather deep green, 

 inclining a little to olive-green, and thickly freckled with 

 pale yellow atoms ; dorsal stripe complete, very broad, dark 



