286 LEPIDOPTERA. 



orbicular stigma round, faintly pink or red, centred witli black, 

 and edged by a black ring ; reniform stigma broad, obscure, 

 partially margined with black, faintly purple, divided by a 

 white cloudy streak which spreads into a white spot at the 

 lower corner, upper margin open to the costa ; claviform 

 stigma short and very broad, smoky-black, edged with deep 

 black ; just before the reniform stigma is a slender, black, 

 undulated and indented transverse cloudy stripe or central 

 shade ; costa regularly spotted with black and white ; hind 

 marginal area dusky-green with a row of pale purple or pink 

 marginal dots, each edged by a black -brown lunule; cilia 

 crenulated, dusky purple, edged and dashed with dark brown. 

 Hind wings rounded, pure white, covered toward the base 

 with long yellowish-grey hairs ; nervures faintly brown ; 

 central spot a large brown lunule ; hind margin sharply 

 edged with black-brown crescents ; cilia white, intersected and 

 clouded with pale brown. Female rather more obscurely 

 coloured, with more green suffusion over the fore wings ; the 

 hind wings much suffused with smoky-brown, and showing 

 faint traces of a darker central transverse line; antenn£e 

 threadlike ; body stouter, with a smaller anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings of the male smoky-grey, much 

 dusted with white beyond the middle, and having an obscure 

 transverse white stripe before the hind margin ; discal cell 

 broadly filled with long prostrate smoky -brown hair-scales ; 

 dorsal margin whitish-grey ; hind margin and cilia broadly 

 spotted with purplish-white, these spots edged and divided 

 by two undulating dark-brown exterior lines in the paler 

 cilia. Hind wings as on the upper side, except a small addi- 

 tional dusting of brown along the costal margin. Body and 

 lec-tufts pale smoky-brown; legs dark umbreous, much 

 barred with yellowish-white. 



Rather liable to local variation, Devon specimens being 

 rather large and more suffused with green, those from South 

 Wales and other western districts smaller and with more of 

 the purple tints and the green darker ; those from the Isle 



