to LEPIDOPTERA. 



grey, sharply edged iuterually, but shaded off outwardly so as to 

 form a faint, rather paler band before the hind margin ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform stigmata usually scarcely visible, merely 

 indicated by a faint edging of whitish scales ; but when more 

 distinct the orbicular is oblique and not completely margined, 

 while the reniform is almost divided, or shaped like a " cottage 

 loaf '" ; cilia dark purple-brown. Hind wings blackish streaked 

 with orange at the base, rich orange-yellow in the middle 

 ])ortion, beyond which is a broad deep black band along the 

 hind margin, curved and excavated within ; outside this the 

 extreme margin and cilia are bright orange-yellow. Sexes 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull black in the middle, with 

 a dash of long yellowish scales in the discal cell ; costal and 

 apical margins dull purple ; hind margin purple and yellow ; 

 dorsal pale yellow ; hind wings bright yellow with the costal 

 region broadly purple ; from the margin of this purple 

 colouring arises a broad black band as on the upper side ; 

 body pale purplish ; legs and leg-tufts pale drab ; but the 

 first pair more purplish and barred with black. 



Not a very variable species, though in some individuals the 

 fore wings lose the purple tinge and become reddish-brown 

 or even reddish-drab, or on the other hand become very 

 dark purple-brown ; occasionally the two stigmata are much 

 more distinctly marked with ashy-white. Mr. Sydney Webb 

 has a specimen of which the hind wings are lydc yellow, 

 giving it a very different appearance. 

 On the wing in July and August. 



Larva cylindrical ; second and anal segments slightly com- 

 pressed ; skin soft, not polished. Dark greyish-brown with a 

 greenish tinge ; dorsal line threadlike, white, distinct ; a 

 series of slightly curved, broad blackish or deep olive sub- 

 dorsal dashes point backwards, and unite in the dorsal line, 

 but on the posterior segments remain separate, and form 

 broad blackish wedge-shaped markings ; those on the twelfth 



