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colour, and often, over the outer half of the wings, between 

 the nervures, a faint dusting of glossy jjale scales. Cilia of 

 all the wings somewhat hoary. Female brown, less glossy, 

 but with a large, irregular, and variable, fulvous or orange- 

 yellow blotch, divided by the brown nervures, beyond the 

 middle of the fore wings, often sharply margined, but occu- 

 pying a large portion of the outer half of the wings ; in it 

 is placed a large sub-apical black spot, having one. or very 

 often two, white pupils. Hind wings with a broad, indistinct 

 fulvous or greyish transverse band beyond the middle, often 

 hardly perceptible. Cilia of all the wings yellowish brown. 



Underside of the fore wings of the male fulvous to the 

 middle, where is a slender redder transverse line followed by a 

 large space of paler fulvous or orange in which is the round 

 sub-apical black spot with a white centre ; costal and hind 

 margins pale umbreous, the latter broadly so ; of hind wings 

 golden brown, with a broad paler band, the whole dusted 

 over with dark brown scales ; of the female similar, but with 

 the band of the hind wings paler. In this pale band are two 

 or sometimes three black dots ringed with orange, usually 

 present in the male, but rarely so in the female. 



Variation in the male takes place in the size and intensity 

 of the patch of blackish scales in the middle of the fore wings, 

 and also in the presence or absence, as well as extent, of the 

 fulvous patches. These when present are usually much 

 clouded and hardly defined, but in the North of Ireland 

 specimens occur in which these coalesce, and extend them- 

 selves into a distinct, well-defined fulvous blotch, enclosing 

 the black spot, and somewhat resembling that of the female. 

 I took such a specimen in the county Down last summer, and 

 saw another in the collection of the Rev. W. F Johnson, of 

 Armagh. In the female the variation in this fulvous or 

 orange blotch takes the form of extension through the middle 

 of the wing, sometimes as a mere fulvous cloud beyond the 

 well-defined dark transverse line, but in other cases breaking 

 that line and filling a large portion of the centre of the 



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