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with black lunules ; cilia slightly crenulated, grey-brown, 

 dashed with reddish-white. Hind wings white, clouded 

 along the costal and hind margins with smoky-brown ; ner- 

 vures dark brown; central spot large but indistindt — a mere 

 smoky -brown streak ; beyond it is a faint transverse brown 

 line, and some whitish clouding in the darker colour near the 

 anal angle ; cilia dirty white. The female has the antennae 

 quite simple, and the body rather stouter, but is otherwise 

 extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky purplish- 

 brown; reniform stigma and a slender transverse stripe 

 beyond it darker ; dorsal margin paler. Hind wings whitish, 

 broadly dusted with purple-brown toward the costal and 

 hind margins ; central spot dark purple-brown, followed 

 by a rather paler slender transverse stripe. Body and legs 

 chocolate-brown. 



The form described is that found in the South of England, 

 and not by any means that which is most plentiful in these 

 Islands. Variation appears to be somewhat climatal, or at 

 any rate local. In Suffolk there seems to be a slight 

 tendency to a greyer-brown ; but it is more to the North 

 that the most pronounced variation is found. In Scotland 

 from the Southern border throughout the Midland, Eastern, 

 and Western districts of that country, especially in the large 

 woods, heaths, and mountain districts, forms are found, often 

 in abundance, having the chocolate-brown colour enriched, or 

 otherwise clouded and partially obliterated, with black in 

 varying degrees, sometimes obscuring or concealing, wholly 

 or partially, the transverse lines, and in some instances 

 leaving no marking distinctly visible except the whitish 

 streaks in the reniform stigma, which are exceedingly con- 

 stant. Similar specimens are found in the Orkneys, and Mr. 

 McArthur has brought one specimen thence which is almost 

 entirely velvety-black. In Shetland there is an intermingling 

 of forms, some being like those from the South of England, 

 others black-brown, with pale stigmata, whitish transverse 



