358 LEPIDOPTERA. 



united to this stripe, whitish, otherwise edged with black, 

 and containing a grey cloud ; claviform stigma slenderly 

 edged with black ; cilia shining purplish-white. Hind 

 wings large, glossy whitish tinged with grey-brown, es- 

 pecially toward the hind margin where is a large cloud; 

 nervures greyish ; central streak elongated, grey-brown, 

 followed by a slender similar transverse stripe ; cilia white. 

 Female with simple antennae and stouter abdomen, otherwise ■ 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark grey, strongly shaded 

 with purple along the costa and hind margin ; reniform 

 stigma faintly blackish, followed by two very indistinctly 

 blackish transverse stripes. Hind wings whitish, costal 

 region dusted with purplish, hind margin with grey ; central 

 spot dark grey-brown, followed by a distinct grey transverse 

 stripe. Body and leg-tufts purple-brown ; legs blackish, 

 barred with yellowish. 



Rather constant in colour and markings, except for 

 climatic variations. The colour is more richly pink in the 

 youth and East of England. In the north, and especially 

 in Scotland, it is intensified into a deep dark jDurplish-brown, 

 or purplish-black, most of the markings thereby obscured, 

 but the pale subcostal stripe conspicuous though narrower 

 and more curved, uniting with the pale orbicular stigma ; 

 the reniform stigma is also paler. This dark race is found 

 as far south as Delamere Forest, Cheshire, and in some parts 

 of Yorkshire. In the extreme north of Scotland, as at 

 Stornoway, it disappears, and is replaced by pale colouring — 

 pale purplish, pale lilac, or even purplish-white. Irish 

 specimens are of rather full size, and usually of a greyer 

 shade of rosy, but occasionally richly pink, and one specimen 

 taken at the Hill of Howth by Mr. Fitzgibbon is of a 

 singular pale colour, almost yellowish with a pink tinge. 

 In Mr. E. A. Atmore's collection is a specimen, taken near 

 King's Lynn, of a rich crimson, with the subcostal stripe 

 yellow and the markings very conspicuous. Dr. Mason has 



