132 LEPIDOPTERA. 



more direct and oblique but obscurely similar ; subterminal 

 line a series of deep black angles and irregularities partially 

 clouded inside with black, arid extending from the anal angle 

 to the costa before the apex ; before and behind this the 

 surface is dappled with silvery-white ; orbicular stigma 

 irregularly formed, open below, bordered with white, its 

 lower margin opened so as to extend below the median 

 nervure, and there join an irregular brilliant silvery U-shaped 

 marking, which usually is followed by a similar round spot, 

 forming a broken Y ; reniform stigma upright, outlined with 

 cloudy-black and partially with a very slender silvery edging ; 

 the portion of the wing from the stigmata to the dorsal 

 margin blacker than the rest; extreme hind margin edged 

 with a black line, and inside this by a row of elongated white 

 dots backed by black crescents ; cilia dusky-white dusted 

 with black-brown. Hind wings rounded, smoky brownish- 

 white clouded with darker ; nervures dark brown ; hind- 

 marginal region broadly bordered with a smoky-black band 

 which shades off inwardly ; cilia white, dashed with dark 

 brown. Female extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull smoky-brown with two 

 faintly darker transverse stripes, one in the middle, the other 

 near the hind margin ; cilia white, broadly dashed with 

 smoky- brown. Hind wings smoky brownish- white dusted 

 with brown, with a slender darker brown transverse stripe in 

 the middle and a broad one along the hind margin. Body 

 silvery whitish-brown ; leg tufts smoky-brown ; tibiee black- 

 brown much barred with white. 



Usually only variable in the depth of the black clouding 

 and in the shape of the Y, which is very irregular. In a 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. A. C. Vine it is produced 

 into a long attenuated and enlarged stripe of rich gold colour 

 toward the base of the wing. Those taken at Londonderry 

 by Mr..Milne have a beautiful flush of purple over the fore 

 wings. 



On the wing at the end of June and in July. 



