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antenn£e slender but slightly pectinated ; dark grey. Fore 

 wings longer and rather more pointed ; markings similar, but 

 rather more obscure, the lunule being rarely visible, while 

 the black atoms of the cloudy orange line near the hind 

 margin are often massed into blotches ; otherwise similar to 

 the male. 



Underside smokj^-grey with the costal margin whitish, and 

 a central black lunule which touches a smoky-black cloud or 

 band lying half across the fore and hind wings from the 

 costal margins ; cilia whitish, edged with smoky ; body and 

 legs smoky-grey, the latter strongly tufted with scales. 



Not very variable, but ranges from an almost total absence 

 of markings to strongly marked transverse lines. Occasionally 

 the ochreous colour, although not very distinct in the trans- 

 verse lines, is mottled and sprinkled over the fore wings. In 

 Dr. Mason's collection is a specimen which is streaked longi- 

 tudinally with black, and in that of Mr. S. J. Capper is one 

 having black transverse lines, the second double and very 

 strongly marked. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva nearly two inches long. Head round, blackish, 

 tufted with hairs ; body increasing slightly in thickness to 

 the twelfth segment ; anal segment sloping rapidly off to the 

 rather extended pro-legs ; body brown or blackish, covered 

 with hairs, which arise in lai'ge loose tufts, generally brown 

 or smoky-brown or else yellowish ; on the backs of the fifth 

 to the ninth segments are five erect, flat-topped, exceedingly 

 dense tufts, or brushes, of hairs, whitish or greyish, but 

 becoming blackish at the tips ; on the back of the twelfth 

 segment is a much longer dense tuft of hairs, black, and 

 forming a blunt tip pointing somewhat backward ; on the 

 sides, but much concealed by the hairs, are two or three rows 

 of yellowish spots ; legs and prolegs brown. 



August to May on hawthorn, sallow, willow, heather, 

 broom, and even on the blossoms of furze. The very young 



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