i86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



beyond are two more bands, narrower, but quite regular, 

 following nearly the curve of the hind marghi. In the hind 

 wings the darkness from the base extends nearly to the 

 middle, enclosing two or three pale spots, and is followed by 

 one partial and two complete stripes before the hind margin, 

 which also is broadly dark -bordered in these as in the fore 

 wings. Cilia of all the wings clear white, interrupted with 

 black at the tip of every nervure. Sexes similar, but female 

 slightly larger. Under side of the fore wings fulvous, with 

 the markings, as on the upper side, faintly indicated, and 

 the apex yellow ; of the hind wings a lovely shining pale 

 creamy-yellow, divided by black nervures, and ci'ossed by 

 bands of rich reddish-fulvous and slender indented black 

 lines. 



Variable in the ground colour from tawny to yellowish- 

 fulvous, or even reddish-fulvous, and in the extent of the 

 blackish suffusion from the base. Occasionally, in both 

 sexes, the transverse bands are narrow, and set somewhat 

 apart, in such a manner as to leave a broad fulvoiis central 

 fascia, only interrupted by the dark nervures, while often the 

 blackish colour runs along the nervures, on the hind wings 

 especially, and reduces the size of the fulvous spaces. 



There is, moreover, local variation in the colour and mark- 

 ings of the hind wings on the under side — those, for instance, 

 from Sussex having the ground colour of a brilliant creamy 

 white, especially shown in the central band, which is broad 

 from the narrowness of the preceding and following reddish- 

 fulvous stripes ; while those from Essex have this portion 

 yellower, the reddish transverse stripes broader, and the 

 central band often intersected by a delicate black line. 



Mr. S. Stevens has in his collection the original specimen 

 described under the name of Eos by Haworth. It is not 

 tesselated, but has the upper side beautifully clouded with 

 blackish, in which are a few paler spots, also one black 

 transverse line across all the wings, deeply crescentic and 

 toothed on the hinder ; on the under side a great black cloud 



