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the middle ; hind wings with the margin partly rounded, 

 then straight, to the anal angle. Bright fulvous ; blackish 

 tinged with golden at the bases ; nervures finely indicated 

 with blackish ; markings black. Fore wings with costal mar- 

 gin blackish, and arising from it a series of three naiTow and 

 two broad spots, parallel with which is a row of round spots 

 passing obliquely through the middle of the wing ; opposite 

 the middle of this row is a square spot on the middle of the 

 dorsal margin ; and before the hind margin are two transverse 

 rows of round, or partly round, spots, between the nervures ; 

 hind margin with a blackish double line, and the usual spots 

 on the nervures. Hind wings with an irregular ring-spot 

 before the middle, followed by three transverse rows of 

 regularly placed round spots ; hind margin finely double- 

 lined and with spots on the nervures. Sexes alike. 



Under side of fore wings spotted like the upper, except at 

 the apex, where are six silvery spots, two of them ringed with 

 black ; hind wings pale fulvous, with numerous shining 

 silvery spots ; four of which, forming a sort of square in the 

 inner half of the wing, are very large and elongated, and have 

 above and between them several smaller ones ; a row of large 

 ones lies along the hind margin, and in the intermediate 

 space is a row of similar dots, ringed with black and sur- 

 rounded with dusky red. 



Usually not very variable, but Mr. S. Stevens possesses one 

 in which three black spots, placed triangularly before the 

 middle of the fore wings, are very large and striking ; and 

 another — a small specimen, in which the spots, generally, are 

 large enough to greatly exclude the fulvous ground colour. 

 One taken at Dover, and in Mr. Webb's collection, has the 

 black spots of the inner row on the hind wings abnormally 

 small ; and another magnificent Dover specimen, in the cabinet 

 of Mr. E. Sabine, has the whole basal area suffused with 

 brilliant steel-blue instead of the golden tinge, and the larger 

 spots of the fore wings of unusual size and blackness, and 

 almost confluent. 



August to October. 



