44 ■ LEPIDOP TERA . 



faint cloudy baud ; cilia red-brown. Sexes very similar, but 

 the female by far the larger. 



Underside red-brown, nervures more rust-red, costa clouded 

 with blackish ; but in the female this colour is extended 

 broadly over the under-surface of the wings ; a blackish 

 central shade, or stripe, passes rather directly across the 

 middle of both fore and hind wings, and sometimes a second 

 appears nearer the hind margin of the hind wings ; cilia as on 

 the upper side ; body and leg-tufts red-brown tinged with 

 smoky-black ; legs black. 



Very constant in markings and rarely variable in colour, 

 but in the collection of Mr. S. Stevens is a very light brown 

 specimen and another of a pale buff with the lines and shades 

 grey. Occasionally it is suffused with smoky-black. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva rounded, hairy, much flattened beneath, with fleshy 

 protuberances on each segment in a line with the bases of the 

 legs and prolegs, and emitting long hairs in a downward 

 direction ; incisions of the segments, and the sides, wrinkled ; 

 second and anal segments attenuated ; twelfth segment with 

 a small dorsal hump ; head small, rounded, and hairy ; the 

 whole of the body covered with moderately long and downy 

 blackish hairs. Head dark grey, dusted with ochreous ; body 

 dark grey dusted with blackish, incisions between the second 

 to fourth segments blue-black ; on the fourth to the eleventh 

 segment is a series of pairs of whitish, oblique, wedge-shaped, 

 dorsal dashes, each dash preceded by a dull orange spot ; 

 base of the hump on the twelfth segment shaded with dull 

 orange ; undersurface orange, spotted with black, with a 

 shining black spot on each segment. The lateral tubercles 

 are paler below, and the hairs emitted by them form a fringe 

 to the sides of the larva (0. Fenn). When young more dull 

 in colour. Sometimes in the adult larva the ground colour is 

 more reddish-brown with the sides grey, or the dorsal region 

 is rippled with paler shades. 



