22 LEPIDOPTERA. 



space is dusted with yellowish scales ; the nervui-es being 

 distinctly darker than the interspaces ; a rounded clear white 

 spot lies at the end of the discal cell ; cilia red-brown. Hind 

 wings broadly rounded, red-brown, often unicolorous, other- 

 wise with more, or less indication of a rather slender 

 yellowish-white transverse stripe beyond the middle, which 

 is rarely distinct ; basal half of the wings thickly clothed 

 with long silky hairs ; cilia red-brown. 



Female larger and stouter ; antennae shortly toothed ; fore 

 wings larger and longer, with the costal margin rounded 

 beyond the middle ; red-brown, sometimes dusted all over, or 

 in the basal, or hind marginal spaces, with dull buff scales ; 

 in other cases showing no trace of them ; first transverse line 

 more complete, often reaching the dorsal margin as the edge 

 of a faintly paler basal patch ; second stripe more oblique, 

 less strongly marked ; hind marginal space usually rather 

 paler than the central portion ; hind wings unicolorous ; other- 

 wise similar. 



Underside drab-brown with a broad, gracefully curved, 

 reddish-brown shade crossing the middle of all the wings ; 

 body and legs darker brown. Besides the slight variations 

 above noted, the curved-in first stripe in the male is occa- 

 sionally reduced to a mere loop, or totally absent ; in other 

 cases the second stripe is broader and very white and distinct. 

 I have a female in which the two stripes are joined by a pale 

 bar breaking the central darker space ; and Mr. S. J. Capper 

 has one devoid of transverse stripes. Specimens from the 

 old Kentish locality were very much paler than those 

 described, being of a light bright yellowish-brown ; and of 

 this form Dr. Mason has a specimen devoid of the stripes and 

 the white spot, but with darkened nervures. In his collection 

 is also a deep chocolate -red specimen taken in Hants. A 

 gynandrous example is on record, of which the right side is 

 male ; the division of sexes in it being so marked as to form 

 a line down the middle of the thorax and abdomen, especially 

 visible on the underside. 



