202 LEPIDOPTERA. 



broad, costa rather arched at the base, thence gently curved ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin very slightly rounded ; 

 colour pale purplish fulvous, paler in the central area, with 

 very faint indications of a transverse line at the extreme base, 

 and of another, rather angulated, beyond it ; first line near 

 the middle of the wing, deep black and duplicated ; some- 

 what bent below its centre ; second line also black, double, 

 elbowed outwardly, but unusually perpendicular ; beyond it 

 is another blackish line, not quite parallel, and outside this a 

 broad space tinged with smoky-grey, in which is a rippled 

 shade of the pale ground colour, terminating in a black 

 oblique line, which runs into the apex. Orbicular stigma 

 greyish-white, oval, with a distinct black streak in the middle ; 

 reniform stigma also white, and black centred, but so con- 

 stricted in the middle as to form a very distinct figure 8, 

 while the other stands for a very tolerable 0. Hind margin 

 edged with a black line ; cilia purple-brown, divided by a 

 darker line. Hind wings pale smoky-grey, with a central 

 transverse whitish stripe ; uervares, and a long slender discal 

 lunule, dark brown; cilia rather long, whitish. Female very 

 similar, abdomen stouter and almost devoid of tufts. 



Underside very pretty, pearly white, broadly clouded with 

 smoky-brown along the costa, and having, on all the wings, 

 two broad smoky-brown transverse bands, of which the first 

 is divided by whitish clouds, most distinct in the female, the 

 outer one being often very faint in the other sex ; body pale- 

 brownish ; legs whitish, dark brown in front. 



Hardly variable, except that some specimens have a faint 

 central dusky shade, and some smoky clouding before the 

 first line. 



On the wing at the end of May and in June and July. 



Larva moderately stout, rather clumsy ; slightly tapering 

 at each end ; head broad, glossy, a little rough, orange- 

 ochreous, barred on each side the mouth with black, which 

 extends to the ocelli ; round the pale antennal papillee are 



