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brown, tinged with blackish and with a faint reddish gloss ; 

 basal line incomplete, curved, blackish, but often hardly per- 

 ceptible ; first line black, very slender, rather oblique, and 

 formed into a series of curves ; second line black, extremely 

 slender, forming a series of faint crescents, broadly curved 

 outside the reniform stigma, then with a sudden bend pro- 

 ceeding straight to the dorsal margin near its middle ; both 

 these lines arise from black costal spots; subterrainal line 

 only visible as a faint division of a smoky-brown shade, which 

 occupies all the hind-marginal space; orbicular stigma of the 

 o-round colour, irreo-ular, partially edged with black, often 

 forming a long loop and joined to the first line ; renilorm 

 stigma edged in front and behind, and partially divided or 

 clouded, with black ; claviform stigma short, indicated by its 

 Jblack edge ; cilia brown, mixed with glistening yellowish and 

 blackish scales. Hind wings ample, with the hind margin 

 slightly hollowed below the apex ; dull smoky-brown with 

 darker nervures, and the costal margin tinged from the base 

 with o-listening golden-green ; cilia whitish, clouded with 

 grey. Female stouter, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-colour, with the hind 

 marginal space paler ; i-eniform stigma indicated by a large 

 cloudy black lunule ; beyond it a perpendicular black streak 

 from the costa is continued as a faintly blackish transverse 

 line almost across the wing ; nearer the hind margin is a pale 

 yellowish transverse line, outside which the nervures are 

 dashed with yellowish. Hind wings whitish, or pale grey, 

 dusted with darker, and toward the costal margin with red- 

 dish ; central lunule large, blackish, followed by a distinct, 

 slender, waved, blackish transverse stripe; hind margin 

 clouded with dark grey ; cilia pale grey with a yellow basal 

 line. The whole underside of the wings is also brilliant with 

 a golden gloss. Body and legs smoky-brown. 



Not very variable, but slightly so in the obscuration of the 

 blackish markings ; the edges of the orbicular and claviform 

 stigmata being often fragmentary. In northern districts, and 



