NYMPHALID^. 1S7 



of all the wings scalloped. Male bright fulvous with the 

 base of the wiugs golden-brown, and the nervures and spots 

 black. Each of the nervures of the fore wings, from the 

 median to the dorsal margin, is broadly striped, or suffused 

 with blackish in the middle portion of the wing. Four 

 elongated black spots, arising on the sub-costal nervure, lie 

 across the discal cell ; beyond and below these is an extremely 

 irregular transverse row of spots between, and uniting, the 

 nervures ; two transverse rows of round or slightly lunate 

 spots between the nervures precede the hind margin, along 

 which is a final row of spots upon the nervures. A wide 

 space, near the costal margin, beyond the discal cell, is some- 

 times immaculate, at others it has a large cloudy spot. Hind 

 wings with an elongated spot in the golden-brown space 

 before the middle, followed by an irregular indented trans- 

 verse stripe ; beyond which are two rows of rounded or ovate 

 spots between the nervures, and a marginal row upon the 

 nervures. These marginal black spots on both fore and hind 

 wings either coalesce or are joined by a black line at the 

 base of the fulvous cilia. Female darker in colour towards 

 the base, and more of a tawny brown, with the spots similar, 

 but larger, the cloudy costal spot beyond the discal cell 

 darker and always present, but no dark stripes or expansions 

 upon the nervures. 



Under side of fore wings like the upper, except that the 

 apical space is greenish, and the nervures only faintly 

 darkened ; of hind wings dusky green, with long silvery 

 transverse stripes, the last two of whicli enclose a broad band, 

 which in some cases is green, in others tinged with yellow, 

 brown, or even purple, and in which two rows of darker 

 round spots are faintly visible. In the female rather darker, 

 and with the hinder silvery stripe purplish. 



lu some districts — notably in the New Forest — a regularly 

 recurrent variety of the female is found, which is distinguished 

 by a partial or total absence of the fulvous or tawny colour- 

 ing, and a very consideral)le suffusion of black scales, in some 

 cases to such an extent that the majority of the black spots 



