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brown, almost blackish at the extreme edge ; with a faint ful- 

 vous spot near the base, and a curved row of the same beyond 

 the middle, but not approaching the dorsal margin. Cilia of all 

 the wings yellowish white. Female pale golden brown, with a 

 fulvous tinge ; fore wings with the discal cell pale fulvous, and 

 having a row of spots placed as in the male, but larger, and 

 with one or two additional and still larger, almost completing 

 the transverse row, all very pale fulvous or yellowish, and 

 those near the tip of the wing almost yellowish white. Hind 

 wings darker golden brown, with indistinct fulvous spots 

 as in the male, but larger and rather more distinct; hind 

 margins of all the wings very dark brown with whitish cilia. 



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

 middle, greenish at the apex, whitish along the dorsal margin, 

 with a blackish cloud or bar from the base to near the middle, 

 in the male extended so as to occupy the space of the black 

 oblique streak of the upper side, but in the female confined 

 to a space nearer the dorsal margin ; spots as on the upper 

 side, but whiter, those towards the apex sometimes silvery 

 white, the others confluent or merged in a whitish cloud. 

 Hind wings greenish yellow dusted with black, with a broken 

 ring of elongated or pointed silvery spots near the base, and 

 a curved row of angular silvery white spots beyond the 

 middle, all edged internally and externally with black ; a 

 fulvous cloud, edged with blackish, lies above the anal angle ; 

 cilia all yellowish, with slender brown dashes, especially in 

 the fore wings. Antennae blackish above, yellowish below. 



A very constant species in colour and markings in both 

 sexes, though varying a little in depth of colour of the brown 

 portions of the wings. Sometimes in the male these are so 

 pale that it is mainly bright fulvous. Mr. S. Webb has one 

 in which the dark colour is quite absent, and the whole upper 

 surface of a fawn colour, and another having only two small 

 silveiy white spots on the under side ; Mr. S. Stevens has one 

 entirely golden brown, except the black streak ; and specimens 

 with the ground colour wholly silvery white exist in the coUec- 



