240 LEPIDOPTERA. 



margin expanded and decidedly curved ; colour pale purple- 

 brown dusted with dark brown and richly clouded with 

 oransre-red ; in the middle of the base is a round white dot 

 of thickened upraised scales very sharply defined and like a 

 waxen drop on the surface ; basal line not indicated ; first 

 line nearly erect, twice curved, dusky-white edged on each 

 side with purplish-brown ; second line dull white, double, 

 rather oblique and direct, but a little curved in the middle, 

 and when close to the costa throwing back a white dash at a 

 sharp angle to join a white costal dot ; subterminal line just 

 visible as a meandering irregular whitish shade ; orbicular 

 stigma represented by a pure white dot upraised and very 

 similar to that at the base of the wing ; reniform by two 

 perpendicularly placed black dots ; from the base to the 

 second line the surface, and more especially the middle 

 portion, is much suffused, with large clouds of rich orange- 

 red, and a similar straight oblique dash lies at the base of 

 the dorsal margin ; cilia dull chocolate-brown shaded with 

 dark brown. Hind wings large, broad, but rather short ; 

 hind margin minutely crenulated, smoky purplish-brown, a 

 shade paler toward the base ; cilia concolorous. Female 

 extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull purple-brown dusted 

 with dark brown and clouded in the middle and along the 

 nervures with smoke-colour ; from a black costal spot arises 

 a similar oblique transverse line ; costa otherwise regularly 

 barred with black-brown ; dorsal margin iridescent yellowish - 

 white. Hind wings purple-brown much dusted with black- 

 brown ; a smoky-black partial central transverse stripe is 

 followed by a similar cloud toward the apex. Body and legs 

 purple-brown ; tibise barred with white. 



Hardly variable, or only so in the general tone of colour, 

 darker or paler ; and in some degree in the extent of orange- 

 red clouding. 



On the wing from August till October and, after hyberna- 

 tion, till May. 



