246 LEPIDOPTERA. 



fulvous, with all the margins rather dark brown, hind margins 

 broadly so ; bases clouded with brown ; a round black spot 

 containing two brightly white dots near the apex of the fore 

 wings. The male has, in addition, an oblique dark brown 

 cloudy patch, from the middle of the dorsal margin, nearly 

 across the fore wings. This patch is composed of densely 

 crowded scales, slightly glistening from the upraised edges. 

 The hind wings are so broadly brown from the base and 

 margins that the fulvous colour presents only a large — or 

 sometimes rather small — central blotch ; a small white- 

 centred black spot is usually present near the anal angle. 

 Female slightly larger, and, from wanting the central brown 

 cloud of the fore wings, much brighter and more fulvous. 



"Underside of the fore wings similar to the upper, except 

 that the dark brown central cloud in the male is not indicated, 

 though in the position of its outer edge there is, in both 

 sexes, a faintly brownish transverse shaded line ; of the hind 

 wings, reddish brown dusted with yellow to the middle, 

 where is a waved, indented, and deeply curved, broad trans- 

 verse band of very pale brownish ochreous, tinged with red- 

 dish in the male, beyond which the hind marginal portion is 

 much clouded with reddish brown, dusted with grey. In the 

 paler band is an irregular series of bright white dots, each 

 enclosed in a rusty brown cloud ; in the female the dark 

 portions are inore tinged with olive than with i-eddish, or the 

 ochreous predominates. 



Variation is in general confined in this species to a slight 

 increase or decrease in the breadth of the dark margins, 

 and, in the darker specimens, a tinge of brown on the 

 nervures. But locally there are some singular eccentricities ; 

 in the immediate neighbourhood of the sea a form occurs, 

 locally but constantly, in which the dots of the underside of 

 the hind wings are reproduced on the upper, but black 

 instead of white, though occasionally white centred, irregular 

 in number, one, two, or three, in addition to the permanent 

 spot near the anal angle, and are placed along the central 



