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and faintly ridged ; collar bright reddish-brown ; thorax 

 rather smooth, brownish-white ; the shoulder-lappets fur- 

 nished with long scales ; abdomen paie drab, dusted with black 

 and spotted along the dorsal region with brown-black ; lateral 

 and anal tufts small. Fore wings moderately broad, arcuate; 

 costa arched ; apex pointed ; hind margin beneath it con- 

 cave to above the middle, there angulated. and rounded off 

 below ; dorsal margin straight ; colour yellowish -white, 

 dusted all over with pale brown ; from three obscure cloudy 

 chestnut spots on the costal margin arise equidistant pale 

 brown transverse slender lines or cloudy threads ; beyond the 

 third spot is a much larger and more conspicuous rich chest- 

 nut or chocolate costal spot ; from this proceeds an excessively 

 faint, yellowish-brown, cloudy transverse band, in which lies 

 a large chocolate-black spot divided into five sections by 

 slender white lines ; the concavity below the apex is edged 

 with pale chocolate, the cilia arising from it being purplish - 

 brown, the rest yellowish-white. Hind wings angulated 

 behind and rather tailed, the anterior margin rounded, the 

 hinder straight, to the tail : colour and dusting as in the fore 

 wings ; central spot a reddish dot ; before it is a faint yellow- 

 brown transverse line, beyond it a broader similar band or 

 shade of faint lines ; hind margin edged with a red-brown 

 line ; cilia yellowish white. Female similar. 



Underside very pretty ; fore wings white, dusted with pale 

 chestnut ; all the wings have a central red-black spot or dot, 

 before which is a slender chestnut transverse line, and beyond 

 it a broad similar rich stripe, its inner edge the darkest ; 

 hind margins edged and dashed with the same. Body 

 brownish- white, legs pale brown. 



Extremely constant in colour and markings, but a specimen 

 taken a good many years ago near Folkestone, by Mr. Purdey, 

 has a repetition of the compound spot of the fore wings upon 

 the hind. Forty years ago, when this species was common 

 at West Wickham Wood, Kent, a recurrent malformation, 

 having three wings only, was there not scarce — I have taken 



