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clouds in the middle area of the fore wings and a yellowish 

 spot between the two upper stigmata. In all the varieties 

 of ground colouring the transverse lines are usually indis- 

 tinct, often obsolete; but occasionally very sharply distinct, 

 and when so, they seem to present a most curious appearance 

 of the profile of a sordid and brutalised human face, whereof 

 the claviform stigma is the mouth, the reniform the eye, 

 and the orbicular the nostril. The resemblance of course 

 is fanciful, but it is conspicuous ; in a female specimen in 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury's collection, most glaringly so. A far 

 prettier variety is produced when the second line is placed 

 somewhat far back and the hind marginal space behind it is 

 clouded with black. The three stigmata, which ordinarily 

 are the only conspicuous markings, are in some instances, in 

 females more particularly^ rendered quite obscure, or even 

 almost obliterated ; or some are so obscured, leaving only the 

 reniform, or the claviform, distinct. 



A curious and rather pretty recurrent variety, known as 

 var. flcuja, Steph., is produced by the union of the black 

 stigmata by means of a black bar or streak, or a black cloud, 

 but this even varies greatly ; sometimes a black line connects 

 the reniform with the orbicular, though usually it is carried 

 along the lower edge of the latter to the claviform, in others 

 it passes below the orbicular, uniting the other two ; more 

 rarely the orbicular and reniform are fused together, or united 

 higher up, and the claviform left conspicuously separate ; of 

 this form a very handsome example is in the collection of the 

 late Mr. Henry Doubleday at Bethnal Green Museum. The 

 black bar which unites the stigmata in these specimens takes 

 other forms ; sometimes it is a small black streak just above 

 the top of the claviform, in others it unites with that 

 stigma only, and broadens or extends it in various ways ; 

 or other streaks appear above it, uniting the two upper 

 stigmata as already described, or altering their shape and 

 forming rayed or graded black blotches. In Miss Kimber's 

 collection is a male specimen of the variety having the 



