26o LEPIDOP TERA . 



anal angle are conspicuously pale ; orbicular stigma dirty 

 white, edged and centred with chocolate, and placed in a 

 large cloud of the paler colour lying across the costal half of 

 the wing, which, with the pale blotch at the anal angle, 

 forms the oblique broken central stripe or cloud which dis- 

 tinguishes the species ; reniform stigma somewhat rhom- 

 boidal, only very indistinctly margined, whitish-brown ; 

 claviform stigma long, indistinctly edged with black ; from 

 its tip a black streak passes straight to the second line, 

 cutting the oblique central cloud ; costal margin dusted with 

 hoary, and having toward the apex three or four yellowish- 

 white dots ; nervures also distinguished by a whitish dusting ; 

 cilia dark brown, dusted with black and faintly dashed with 

 brownish white. Hind wings rather small, uniformly smoky- 

 brown, with darker brown nervures ; cilia cloudy-white, with 

 a smoky-brown band. Female very similar, but with the 

 fore wings rather narrower and more blunt ; also slightly 

 darker in colour ; abdomen without the anal tuft, moderately 

 stout, conical and pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, with the 

 eosta darker, but showing three yellow dots before the apex ; 

 at the end of the discal cell is an angulated pale streak. 

 Hind wings brownish-white, much dusted with brown, espe- 

 cially along the costal region ; nervures brown ; beyond the 

 middle is a slender curved brown transverse stripe. Body 

 and legs, with the tufts, light brown ; tibiae black brown, 

 barred with dull yellow. 



The insect as here described is extremely constant in 

 colour and markings. It seems to be confined to Ireland, 

 and was long supposed to be a distinct species, but has been 

 identified with luteago, Hub., a species found on the continent 

 of Europe, and of a dull orange or ochreous colour, with the 

 markings as here described, but of a pale yellow or straw-colour. 

 There is at first sight no resemblance between them, yet, with 

 the exception of colour, no distinction of any importance can 

 be found. Mr. Kane writes : " I have bred a good many ; all 



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