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first line hardly perceptible as a darker shade ; second line 

 an indistinct, curved series of short crescents of blackish 

 clouding", beyond which the wina: is cU»uded with orauo-e- 

 I'ed, more especially toward the apex and anal angle, wliei-e 

 also it is edged with white crescents ; before the hind mai-giu 

 is a faint succession of blackish clouds ; cilia pale brown, 

 broadly spotted with black. Hind wings rounded, uniform 

 blackish -brown, with light brown cilia. Underside of the 

 fore wings smoky black-brown to beyond the middle, then 

 pale smoky-brown, with the apex still paler, and white ; cilia 

 blackish with light brown dashes ; hind wings dark smoky- 

 brown with a yellowish line at the extreme margin and light 

 brown dashes in the cilia ; body dark brown ; legs similar, 

 the first pair moderately tufted with long scales. 



Female totally difierent; antennte minute, slightly toothed; 

 head brown ; thorax small, dark grey-brown ; abdomen very 

 large, coarsely ovate, dark brown, covered with downy scales ; 

 legs light brown ; wings undeveloped, just visible as minute 

 flaps of dark brown membrane, useless for any purpose of 

 locomotion. 



Not variable. 



June, and again at the end of July and in August, or even 

 September, in a partial second generation, On the Continent 

 regularly double-brooded. 



Laeva. Head rounded, body rather long, each segment 

 thickened a little ; anal prolegs rather extended. Head 

 blackish, spotted above with brown ; second segment with a 

 long fascicle, on each side, of clubbed black hairs pointing 

 obliquely forward ; the fifth to the eighth segments each 

 with a dense dorsal tuft of hairs of exactly the same length 

 so as to form flat-topped brushes of a brown colour ; on the 

 twelfth segment a long black or dark grey tuft of hairs 

 inclining backward ; remainder of the body clothed sparingly 

 with reddish hairs. Body blackish-grey with a broad white 

 dorsal line, dappled and speckled with black ; a subdorsal 



