r 72 LEPIDOPTERA. 



white ; anal tuft long, light brown. Fore wings broad, 

 almost truncate ; costa nearly straight, faintly more rounded 

 near the apex, which is bluntly angulated; hind margin a 

 little rounded but almost perpendicular ; dorsal margin 

 straight ; colour black-brown ; basal and first lines velvety- 

 black, each forming a series of short curves, the latter very 

 perpendicular ; second line very slender, black, forming two 

 strong curves above the dorsal margin, then bent out and 

 passing obscurely to the costa; touching it and occupying 

 the previous costal space is a large white or pinkish-white 

 blotch extending halfway across the wing and including part 

 of the usual situation of the reniform stigma, of which there 

 is no indication except that a previous upright black streak 

 in the discal cell possibly represents its anterior margin ; 

 orbicular stigma a small black ring ; subterminal line formed 

 by a row of deep black dots parallel with the hind margin, 

 but preceded by an incomplete series of irregular deep black 

 wedges and angles about which is a considerable dusting of 

 white; at the costa before the apex is a larger black spot 

 with bluish reflections and broken up by white costal dots ; at 

 the anal angle is a white blotch containing brown spots ; 

 extreme hind margin shaded with golden-brown ; cilia white 

 with a broad, brown blotch in the middle portion. Hind 

 wings rounded, smoky-black with a broad creamy-white 

 transverse band in the middle, and a dusted white spot near 

 the hind margin ; cilia white interrupted in the middle space 

 with black. Female closely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings black clouded with white 

 on the margins; the large white spot beyond the middle 

 reproduced but more oval ; anal angle white ; and white 

 spots lie before the apex and in the cilia. Hind wings as on 

 the upper side but with rather more white clouding along 

 the hind margin. Body and leg-tufts dusky white ; tibias 

 black, barred with white. 



On the wing from the end of May to the beginning of 

 July, and as a second generation in August. 



