1 86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



straight ; ground colour olive-brown, palest toward the 

 dorsal margin ; along the costa is a very broad stripe, 

 dusky-brown along the co3tal edge, shading inwards to 

 yellowish-olive and to white along its inner edge, having 

 a small swollen projection near the base and in the middle 

 throwing off a broad finger-like white mark into the 

 middle of the wing; beyond this the deep ground colour 

 is sharply cut off by an oblique white or rosy- white stripe, 

 which runs with a faint curve from the dorsal margin 

 near the anal angle to immediately below the apex of 

 the wing, leaving a sharp point of the dark ground 

 colour actually running into the tip ; this white stripe is 

 edged outwardly by a pale olive parallel line, followed by 

 a broader pale olive-brown stripe along the hind margin, 

 which last is edged with deep olive-brown, and outside 

 this with white ; cilia white, intersected and clouded with 

 olive-brown. Hind wings rather large in proportion, 

 pale smoky-brown, cilia rather whiter. Female closely 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, streaked with 

 yellowish-white toward the hind margin. Hind wings dusky 

 white dusted with brown, and having a slender irregular 

 brown transverse line beyond the middle. Body and legs 

 brown. 



Usually not variable ; but there is in the museum at 

 Carlisle a specimen believed to have been captured in the 

 neighbourhood by Mr. 0. Eales, in which the pale costal 

 stripe is supplemented by another equally broad, joined to 

 it for three-fourths of its length, occupying the middle 

 portion of the wing from the base and throwing out a 

 long spur toward the hind margin ; in the middle of the 

 wing is a spot of the darker ground colour. So far as I 

 know this variation is unique. 



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

 July ; and there is a record of a second generation in August 

 in a very hot summer. 



