20 LEPID OP TERA . 



of minute dark brown lunules and a yellow-brown line ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform stigmata both indicated by faintly whitish 

 margins, and the latter in some instances darker in colour ; 

 cilia olive-brown. Hind wings with a somewhat sinuous 

 margin ; orange yellow, rather clouded with brownish at the 

 base and along the costal region, and with an ill-defined, 

 not very broad, submarginal black band, which is broadest at 

 the apex of the wing, has an undulating inner edge and emits 

 small black dashes from its outer margin ; the central spot is 

 a thick lunule of a dull black ; extreme hind margin beyond 

 the black band rich yellow ; cilia rather paler. Female 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings reddish along the costa and 

 hind margin, yellowish from the base to beyond the middle 

 and along the dorsal margin; beyond the middle is a large 

 smoky-black patch, sharply defined behind and enclosing a 

 blackish reniform stigma; hind wings deep yellow; costal 

 region purplish, darkest towards the apex, where it abbre- 

 viates the black marginal band, which otherwise is as on the 

 upper side. Body pale reddish-drab ; legs brown ; leg tufts 

 pale reddish. 



Usually only very slightly variable, but in the North-east 

 of Scotland sometimes of a darker brown or else tinged with 

 reddish. A specimen in the collection of Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher has the hind wings pale yellow. 



This insect bears considerable resemblance to the preced- 

 ing, but may always be discriminated from it by its narrower 

 fore wings and the black spot before the apex of the fore wings. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Larva stout, cylindrical, of pretty uniform thickness, but 

 tapering a little from the fifth segment to the head, which is 

 the smallest ; thirteenth segment also rather tapering and 

 rounded off behind ; skin smooth and velvety. Colour 

 greyish-brown or pale drab ; on the back of each segment is 

 a much darker and rather olive-tinted diamond-shaped mark, 



