382 LEPIDOP TERA . 



the V-inark is usually an obscure and incomplete cloudy- 

 black central shade, and on the opposite or dorsal margin is 

 a pair of chocolate dots indicating its termination ; cilia 

 smoky-brown. Hind wings broad and elongated ; hind 

 margin very obtusely augulated ; smoky brownish-white, the 

 hind margin more clouded with smoke-colour ; central spot 

 round, black ; on the dorsal margin are two blackish-brown 

 dashes with some freckling of the same colour; cilia smoky- 

 brown. Female similar but with simple antennas. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown ; costa more 

 ochreous, much barred with smoky-black ; dorsal margin 

 white. Hind wings yellowish- white abundantly dusted and 

 rippled with pale purplish-brown, and having a cloudy band 

 of the same before the hind margin ; central spot black ; 

 cilia yellow-brown, spotted with purplish-brown. Body and 

 legs grey-brown ; tibias dotted with white. 



Rather variable in the ground colour, from dusky-white to 

 uniform pale smoky-brown ; and also in respect of the central 

 shade, which often is so much blackened as to confuse the 

 V-mark, or to make with it a triangle, or else to join together 

 the first and second costal spots ; occasionally this central 

 shade distinctly crosses the wing, forming a full curve on its 

 way ; in other specimens it is very indistinct, and the dark 

 streak which should complete the V is absent, or even the 

 discal spot or streak is detached from the costal spot. Mr. 

 Sydney Webb has in his collection a specimen in which the 

 first and second lines are distinct and well-formed, the central 

 shade blackened, and the discal and second costal spots far 

 removed from each other ; another of a uniform smooth 

 smoky black-brown without markings, except that the 

 chocolate colour asserts itself along the costa ; hind wings 

 smoky-black. In South-west Yorkshire Mr. Porritt con- 

 stantly finds it with the fore wings clouded along the hind 

 margin with smoky-black, which shades off inward to the 

 middle of the wings. 



On the wing in July and August. 



