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line double, oblique, deeply indented above the dorsal margin, 

 cloudy chocolate ; subterminal line only distinct above the 

 anal angle as the edge of a chocolate streak, but obscurely in- 

 dicated here and there in a burnished golden-chocolate cloud 

 which lies along the hind margin to the apex ; this below 

 the middle is suffused with a shot-golden tinge ; orbicular 

 stigma faintly indicated, but its base rather more distinctly 

 by a slender curved pale golden line ; this attains the top of 

 an oblique burnished golden Y-mark, which, however, is very 

 commonly broken into a V and a round spot below it ; reniform 

 stigma obscure and placed in a chocolate cloud, but constricted 

 and defined by an excessively slender golden margin ; below 

 this the middle area of the wing between the first and second 

 lines, and enclosing the Y-mark, is occupied by a large choco- 

 late-red cloud, and immediately below by a chestnut cloud 

 edged with chocolate, but the ground colour asserts itself 

 toward the dorsal margin ; extreme hind margin edged with 

 pale purple and a chocolate line ; cilia purplish-white with 

 chocolate clouding. Hind wings large with the apes rather 

 angulated and the hind margin sinuous and crenulated, smoky 

 yellowish-white ; nervures smoky-brown ; across the middle 

 is a slender similar cloudy stripe ; hind margin broadly 

 clouded with the same; cilia brownish-white clouded with 

 brown, but having also a purple flush. Female extremely 

 similar, but with a thicker body. 



Underside of all the wings pale golden-brown with two 

 transverse darker stripes beyond the middle, and the fore wings 

 clouded with smoke colour, the hind with yellowish-white. 

 Body and legs reddish-brown. 



Variation is usually very slight, and confined to the degree 

 of completeness of the Y and the extent of chocolate shading. 

 Some specimens, however, taken in Gloucestershire by the Rev. 

 Alexander Nash, are pale pinkish-purple with violet reflections 

 and a very pretty curved stripe of paler colour close to the 

 base, In Sligo, Westmeath, and elsewhere in Ireland it is 

 found in a rich, dark, strongly rippled form, and at Armagh 



