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for a short distance, then bending suddenly, and becoming 

 broader and blacker through the middle of the wing where it 

 curves slightly towards the hind margin ; densely edged 

 above, and partly obscured towards the base, with masses of 

 raised glistening scales. Nervures sometimes slightly dark in 

 the fore wings, always visibly so where they cross the fulvous 

 crescent ; always distinctly dark-brown on the hind wings, the 

 central portion of which is sometimes tinged with fulvous. 

 Cilia of all the wings very pale brown mixed with blackish in 

 the basal portion. 



Under side of all the wings pale fulvous, with greenish, or 

 greyish, and golden glosses ; base of fore wings blackish, and, 

 in the male, the black oblique line faintly indicated ; in the 

 female the fulvous spots of the upper side indistinctly visible : 

 hind wings more tinged with greyish, except the portion 

 above the anal angle, where is a fulvous cloud. Antennae 

 blackish above, yellowish fulvous beneath. Variation very 

 slight, and consisting mainly in the degree of obscuration of 

 the fulvous markings of the fore wings in the male, or in a 

 slight blackening of the space between the black streak and 

 the dorsal margin. Mr. N. M. Richardson has a curious 

 aberration in which the whole apical portion of the fore wings 

 is broadly whitish. 



On the wing from the end of June till August or even 

 September. 



Laeva, seven-eighths of an inch in length, sluggish, 

 rounded, tapering towards the head and the tail ; the second 

 segment small and short, forming a very narrow neck. Pale 

 greyish green, dorsal line darker, edged with a slender pale 

 yellow line on each side, and divided by a pale line down its 

 centre ; sub-dorsal lines narrow, yellowish ; spiracular stripes 

 broader, also yellowish. Head rather broad and rounded, 

 pale brown, and with the yellowish dorsal lines continued 

 upon it, and edged with brown ; mouth brownish, legs 

 greenish ; on the under surface of the tenth and eleventh 



