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by two or three small black spots edged with cloudy-white ; 

 first line rather upright, much angulated, formed of obscure 

 white dusting ; second line deep black, rippled throughout 

 and much bent, and followed by a more slender similar 

 parallel line ; between these parallel lines and broadly out- 

 side them a large ovate white blotch from the dorsal margin 

 extends more than half-way across the wing, occupying a 

 large portion of the hind-marginal space, its outer area 

 rather dusted with black ; subterminal line white but 

 obscure and much waved, and broken before reaching the 

 costa ; orbicular stigma golden-brown, edged by a dusting 

 of white ; reniform stigma similar, with a more definite 

 outline of white, and a black spot in its base ; claviform 

 stigma faintly indicated by white dusting in a black curve ; 

 between the two upper stigmata is a black blotch devoid of 

 the golden-brown dusting ; a similar streak runs from it to 

 the costa ; just outside the reniform stigma is a sort of 

 imitation thereof, and beyond this are several longitudinal 

 black streaks ; extreme hind margin edged with short black 

 lunules ; cilia long, grey-brown dashed with white, and inter- 

 sected by a black-brown line. Hind wings rounded, shining 

 pale smoke colour ; cilia white, dashed and intersected with 

 smoky-brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black, with an obscure, 

 dusky yellow, curved transverse stripe just beyond the middle. 

 Hind wings yellowish-white dusted with black, and shaded 

 with brown toward the hind margin ; central spot a black dot ; 

 beyond it is a very slender transverse line of black dusting. 

 Body and legs whitish-brown dusted with black ; tibise barred 

 with black. 



Usually very constant in colour and markings. Among 

 the insects from Haworth's collection, now in the possession 

 of Dr. P. B. Mason, is one labelled Albilinea, which is 

 certainly an example of this species, having the usual white 

 blotch, and the apical region grey, except a white line between 

 the two parallel second lines. 



