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others. There are two other small white spots near the corner, forming, 

 as it were, the right houndary of the white bar, the rest of it being 

 filled up with the general colour of the wing ; between the bar and 

 the base of the wings is another dull white mark. There are also one 

 or two small faint white oblong spots near the middle of the outer 

 margin of the fore wings, and they are fringed with white. 



The hind wings have the same white bar continued through their 

 centre, narrowing to the end : tiiey arc also fringed with white. There 

 is an obscure red spot, within which are two black dots, near the inner 

 lower corner. Inside the fringe is a band of a darker colour than the 

 ground of the wings, and within this two others of interrupted spots 

 of the same, and two others are obscurely visible within the white bar. 



Underneath, the general ground-colour of the fore wings is fulvous 

 red, and all the white marks from above shew through, and the dull 

 ones are all clear. The centre of the wings about the lower part of 

 the bar has a tinge of ash-colour and faint bronze. The fringe is 

 alternate brown and white, the latter being intersected by the former 

 being waved. This is succeeded by another curved line, leaving three 

 small crescents of white, and a larger one again within the uppermost 

 of the three, these two last being the ones on the upper side that 

 shew through ; after this the line fades nearly away in the fulvous 

 ground-colour of the wings. There are four short dark waved across 

 lines, two on each side of the white spot between the bar and the 

 base. 



The hind wings have two rows of blacki.sh brown dots between the 

 bar and the margin, then one or two iiiili>.tinctly defined white marks, 

 then a row of crescent-shaped white marks, very faintly discernible, 

 towards the outer corner, and then tiie wliite margin, indented with 

 the fulvous brown of the wings, shewing through between it and the 

 last-named row of white crescents in the shape of a waved line. 



The caterpillar is green, with the iiead and legs reddish. 



The chrysalis is greenish or brownish, with golden spots. It has a 

 large and prominent appendage on the back, and the head is divided 

 into two forward projections. 



Two varieties of this insect have been taken near Colchester, in each 

 of which the white spots on the wings were nearly effaced, the white 

 band entirely or nearly obliterated. 



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