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out, these latter points being the most noticeable portions of 

 the line ; an obscure pale shade of tbe ground colour sweeping 

 in flat curves through a hind-marginal clouding of chocolate- 

 red suggests the subterminal line ; orbicular stigma only- 

 indicated by portions of a chocolate margin ; reniform stigma 

 white, but not conspicuously so, more or less invaded by the 

 brown ground colour, but open above and throwing off a 

 white cloud to the costa ; between those two stigmata is an 

 ill-defined cloud or patch of chocolate-brown from the costa, 

 in some instances continued across the wing as a sinuous 

 central shade ; costa otherwise dotted or clouded with 

 chocolate, and beyond the middle more distinctly dotted 

 with yellow-brown ; along the hind margin are some dark 

 chocolate streaks and a row of black dots ; cilia chocolate-black 

 spotted with pale brown. Hind wings pale smoky-brown 

 with a purplish flush ; nervures and central spot faintly 

 darker; cilia white, intersected by a broken brown line. 

 Female quite similar, hardly stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, paler toward 

 the dorsal margin, much paler toward the apex ; nervures 

 blackened ; an indistinct curved smoky-brown bar lies 

 beyond the discal cell. Hind wings dusky white dusted 

 with brown, especially so toward the costa ; central spot 

 smoky-black ; half way between it and the hind margin is 

 a curved, smoky-black transverse stripe. Body and legs 

 pale smoky-brown. 



Not very variable, though specimens taken in the South 

 of England are usually more warmly coloured and strongly 

 marked than those fi^om further north. Professor Meldola 

 has taken examples in Surrey of a very warm rich tint. 

 In the collection of Mr. S. J. Capper is a specimen of which 

 the ground colour is yellowish-white, and the only markings 

 a central costal spot and the clouding of the hind margin. 

 Occasional specimens have the fore wings suffused with 

 chocolate-red in a very soft smooth manner, the only distinct 

 marking in them being the whiter reniform stigma. 



