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only a V in the middle ; orbicular stigraa ovate, prostrate, 

 strongly black-edged except at the upper side ; reniform 

 stigma obscure, hardly complete, edged inwardly by a straight, 

 deep black, perpendicular line which sometimes is double, 

 and has at its lower corner one or two white dots, outwardly 

 it is pale brown and scarcely margined ; claviform stigma a 

 short obscure black loop ; space from the costa to the two upper 

 stigmata, and often the entire central band, dark chocolate 

 or chocolate red, and sometimes the further space from the 

 second to the subterminal line similarly suffused ; ou the 

 costa to the middle are cloudy black spots, beyond this 

 several minute brownish-white costal dots ; middle of the 

 hind margin and also the anal angle clouded with purplish- 

 black and edged with minute black triangles ; cilia dark 

 chocolate with a dull yellow dash in the middle of each 

 crenulation. Hind wings rounded, with the margin crenu- 

 lated, pale smoky-brown, darker or black-brown toward the 

 hind margin; cilia yellowish-white, clouded, and divided 

 by brown lines. Female similar but usually of the more 

 suffused purple-brown colouring. 



Underside of the fore wings dull pale smoky-brown ; 

 nervures distinctly marked ; reniform stigma blacker and 

 followed by an incomplete, dull, black-brown transverse 

 stripe ; hind wings similar, but with a smoky-black central 

 spot and beyond it a slender curved smoke-coloured stripe. 

 Body and leg-tufts pale purplish-brown ; anal tuft light 

 chocolate ; legs dark brown, barred with white. In the 

 darker individuals smoky-black transverse stripes appear on 

 all the wings, which in the paler form are scarcely percep- 

 tible. 



Variation seems to be nearly confined to the two forms as 

 already described, occurriug always together — that with the 

 larger portion of the fore wings pale reddish-brown, and that 

 iu which they are mainly suffused or clouded with rich 

 purple-brown — of these the first is most plentiful in the 

 South, and apparently the second in the North, where also 



