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which arising on the dorsal margin proceeds in a series of 

 slight curves and indentations to the apex of the wing, where 

 it is merged in a sharp, elbowed, black blotch, above which 

 the tip is often hoary. Between, and outside, these blackish 

 lines are parallel whitish shades or stripes, and beyond them 

 the hind margin is brown with the cilia much darker. At 

 the apex of the discal cell is a black spot, through which, 

 longitudinally, and sometimes transversely, run long black 

 lines. Other, thicker, black lines lie along the nervures 

 beyond the middle of the wing, and at the base is a tuft of 

 long scales, some of which are rosy. Hind wings pale pink, 

 brightest at the base, and having three transverse black bars, 

 one short, near the base, the other two long, one completely 

 crossing the middle of the wing, the other near the hind 

 margin ; outside the latter the margin is tinged with brownish ; 

 cilia reddish-brown. Female similar, but with broader fore 



wings. 



Underside pale grey-brown, with a rosy tinge, much 

 dusted with white scales. At the apex of the fore wings these 

 are dense enough to form a silvery Avhite blotch which is 

 edo-ed below with a black line ; the latter being continued as 

 a dark brown indented stripe -to the dorsal margin, and there 

 uniting with a blackish shade which crosses the wing near 

 the middle ; these two join and are continued, as a broader 

 blackish stripe, across the hind wings. Outside these stripes, 

 on all the wings, are broad ill-defined whitish parallel bauds. 

 Body greyish-white beneath, tinged with pink and brownish ; 

 legs black. 



Variation in this species is mainly in the degree of dark 

 colour on the one hand, or of rosy shading on the other, in the 

 fore wings ; in the hind there is a tendency in the first and 

 second black bands to coalesce near the dorsal margin. J\Ir. 

 Sydney Webb possesses beautiful specimens in which the 

 pale portions of the fore wings are rosy red. In another 

 they are very nearly of a fawn colour. A female reared by 

 Mr. C. A. Briggs, a year or two since, is a magnificent variety, 



