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of tlie same in the darker clouding ; along the costal margin, 

 so far as the reniform stigma, is a series of cloudy black spots, 

 beyond this three pale yellow dots ; extreme hind margin 

 edged with black lunules ; cilia dark brown, dashed with 

 yellow and with a yellow line along the base. Hind wings 

 dusky-white, with a sheen of golden green along the costal 

 margin ; nervures smoky-brown ; hind margin broadly clouded 

 with smoky-brown, in which is a white bar above the anal 

 angle ; cilia white, divided in part by a smoky-brown line. 

 Female extremely similar, but with the body stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings brownish- white ; discal cell 

 filled with long downy scales ; reniform stigma smoky-brown, 

 followed by a dash of the pale colour which is edged with 

 smoky clouding, and this bounded by a smoky black trans- 

 verse line, beyond which is another; nervures edged with 

 brown and conspicuous. Hind wings white, dusted, on the 

 costal half especially, with light brown ; nervures similarly 

 dusted; central spot very small, smoky-black. Body and 

 legs whitish-brown ; tibi^ umbreous, barred with yellowish- 

 white. 



Usually not variable, or only slightly so in the depth and 

 extent of brown marbling and markings on the fore wings ; 

 but a specimen was exhibited at one of the meetings of the 

 South London Entomological Society, by Mr. Oldham, which 

 had a curious curved white streak from the reniform stigma 

 running into the apex of the wings. 

 On the wing in June. 



Larva pale brown with an obscure darker dorsal stripe and 

 two similar stripes on each side ; four black dots on each 

 seo-ment ; under the side stripes on each segment, at the back, 

 a more oblique darker streak; head, dorsal plate and anal 

 flap black-brown (Bkh.). This is the only attainable descrip- 

 tion. The late Mr. Buckler says, in a private letter to Mr. J. 

 Gardner, that Mr. J. E. Robson sent him young larvas which 

 had been reared from the %q^^ ; that he fed them to full growth 



