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distinct, so miicli so as to give the impression ol another, 

 more beautifully marked, species, the second line resembling 

 a graceful necklace of fine markings, and the whole appear- 

 ance being so elegant that some difficulty is found in recog- 

 nising the usually homely dingy insect. In other cases the 

 male varies to dull dark brown, with a darker central shade, 

 and obscure markings as in the female. In that sex the 

 variation is equally great, from pale grey, much dusted with 

 darker, and having a conspicuous pale yellow or whitish sub- 

 terminal line, through various shades of obscure brown to 

 smoky black, but in neither sex do the hind wings vary 

 much. Casual aberrations are almost endless. In the collec- 

 tion of the late Mr. F. Bond is a spotless pale brown male, 

 and also a coal-black female. In that of Dr. P. B. Mason, a 

 female of grey colour with the two transverse lines dis- 

 tinctly double, and black, but enclosing white lines ; another 

 of an extremely pale slate-grey, devoid of markings ; and a 

 male of one half the usual dimensions. In that of Mr. 

 Sydney Webb, a female of a smooth pale slate colour, with a 

 singular soft bloom ; and two others of a peculiar grey-brown, 

 much dusted with darker grey, having the transverse lines 

 very distinct, and in one placed much furtlier apart than in 

 the other. Mr. S. J. Capper has a male most exquisitely 

 shaded with grey, the lines black, edged with white, and the 

 orbicular stigma white ringed ; another, brown with the 

 orbicular stigma greatly elongated, and united by a narrow 

 neck to the reniform stigma ; while another, of a very pale 

 brown, has a black central shade. Mr. Arthur Robinson has 

 a greyish white male, shaded with dark grey at the apex and 

 around the reniform stigma. Mr. F. J. Hanbury has some 

 pale brown males with remarkably rich markings and dark 

 hind-marginal clouding, and one of exquisite beauty, of a 

 smooth clear pale brown, with the first and second lines 

 elaborated into series of long distinct loops, or scallops with 

 long points, and the reniform stigma very well marked. In 

 the collection of Mr. A. C. Vine is a female of a peculiar 



