56 LEPIDOPT^RA. 



cular stigma oblique, incomplete, rather paler than the ground 

 colour, broadly open above, edged on the sides and beneath 

 with black ; reniforni stigma also rather pale, but clouded 

 and edged with black ; whole discal cell before and between 

 them, filled up with deep black or chocolate-black, forming- 

 two conspicuous rhomboid spots ; below these is usually a 

 shading off of cloudy-black, and sometimes another outside 

 the reniform stigma ; claviform stigma almost obsolete, or 

 indicated by a black dot ; beyond the second line the nervures 

 are streaked with pale grey, and along the extreme hind 

 margin is a yellowish line ; cilia reddish dusted with grey. 

 Hind wings rather broad and ample ; pale brownish -grey, 

 more whitish at the base ; nervures brownish, hind margin a 

 little darker ; cilia whitish. Female very closely similar, but 

 with the dorsal margin of the fore wings straight. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-grey edged with reddish 

 along the costa and hind margin, and with whitish along the 

 dorsal margin ; beyond the middle is a slender blackish 

 transverse stripe hardly extending across the wing, and beyond 

 it the grey area is suddenly terminated by reddish-white ; 

 hind wings shining white, dusted with purple-red along the 

 costa, and having two transverse cloudy greyish lines beyond 

 the middle ; central spot lunate, blackish or dusky-brown. 



Rather variable in the ground colour, from bright rosy- 

 brown to dark purple-brown, but otherwise very constant. 

 Two specimens in the collection of Mr. W. H, B. Fletcher are 

 rather strikingly marked, the surface of the fore wings is not 

 so glossy as usual, there is a broad darker purplish-brown 

 transverse stripe at the base, and another beyond the central 

 space, which is itself rather pale, but has the stigmata and 

 spots very conspicuous. 



On the wing in July, 



Larva. Length about an inch and a quarter and tolerably 

 stout in proportion. Head polished ; it has the lobes rounded 

 and is narrower than the second segment. Body cylindrical 



