i8o LEPIDOPTERA. 



subterminal line white, a W in its centre and a decided 

 curve above and beneath, inwardly it is partially edged by 

 dark brown arrow-head or wedge shaped markings, and 

 paler brown clouds ; outwardly with pale umbreous-brown. 

 which fills the hind marginal space ; orbicular stigma white, 

 ovate, oblique, slenderly margined with brown ; reniform 

 stigma whitish above and edged with brown, i',:s lower- half 

 lying in, and tinged by, a pale umbreoas cloud which extends 

 to the second line, thus causing the appearance of a broad 

 oblique whitish stripe or shade in the middle of the wing ; 

 claviform stigma brown and edged by a darker brown line 

 which almost joins the tip of a dusky black wedge ; costal 

 margin dotted with brown ; hind margin with minute black 

 triangles edged with white ; cilia umbreous, dashed with 

 white. Hind wings white, with a faint, partial, brownish, 

 cloudy stripe before the hind margin, most noticeable on the 

 nervures ; cilia white. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings white, clouded with brown 

 along the costal region ; nervures tinged with brown ; middle 

 area dusted with grey scales ; a blackish spot in the position 

 of the reniform stigma. Hind wings white, thinly dusted 

 with brown along the costal and hind marginal regions ; 

 central spot small, blackish ; beyond it is a transverse row 

 of brown dots. Body and legs whitish-brown. 



On the wing in July, August, and Sef)tember. 



Larva apparently not very fully described. Hofmann 

 says, "Paler or darker yellow-brown, .with two whitish spots 

 on each segment on the back, and a whitish streak on each 

 side ; beneath which is a whitish longitudinal stripe rippled 

 with reddish ; on the upper edge of it are placed the white 

 spiracles in black spots. Head brown ; undersurface and 

 feet grey." 



'*May and June on Chenopodium, Salsola and Mesembre- 

 anthemum." 



Pupa undescribed. 



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