290 LEPIDOPTERA. 



subdorsal nervure, but is there nearly always obscured by the 

 fulvous scales. Hind wings golden brown, clouded with 

 darker brown, especially at the margins, which are almost 

 black ; with a fulvous spot near the base of the wings, and a 

 curved row of similar squared spots beyond the middle. 

 Female golden brown ; fore wings with part of the discal cell 

 and an elbowed transverse line of squared, or wedge-shaped, 

 spots beyond it, pale fulvous ; hind wings spotted as in the 

 male, but more distinctly so, from the darker ground colour. 

 Cilia in both sexes dark brown at the apex of the fore wings, 

 shading off to pale brown, paler in the hind wings, and with 

 the outer edge sometimes whitish. 



Under side of the fore wings, in both sexes, fulvous, with 

 the base and dorsal margin blackish, and the portion towards 

 the apex and hind margin broadly tinged with greenish 

 yellow, in which the row of fulvous spots of the upper side is 

 visible. In the male the oblique black streak of the upper 

 side is also distinctly shown below. Hind wings glistening 

 dark yellow, tinged with greenish, except towards the anal 

 angle, and the row of spots of the upper side is reproduced in 

 pale yellow. These are slightly more distinct in the female 

 and the greenish tinge a little deeper. 



Variation in this species is but slight and shows itself 

 mainly in the intensity of the dark clouding, which in the 

 male is sometimes very faint, with the fulvous spots of the 

 hind wings much extended, while in the female it is often 

 intensified, the fulvous spots, however, becoming paler. The 

 most striking aberration that I have seen is one in Mr. S. J. 

 Capper's collection, having large confluent yellow spots. 



On the wing from June to August. 



Larva, when full-grown, fi-om an inch to an inch and a 

 quarter in length ; sluggish ; moderately plump ; rounded, 

 and tapering to each extremity ; the second segment much 

 smaller than the head — which is large and curiously promi- 

 nent, rounded and of a reddish brown colour; body jjale 



