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There is a broad terminal border almost meeting the 

 basal black on the costa, and sending a shade across the 

 wing through the fulvous space, also a subterminal row 

 of black spots, some of which are pupilled. 



Under side of fore wings pale fulvous, with three or 

 four not very prominent bars in the cell, a somewhat 

 triangular patch beyond, and a terminal brown-black 

 border with the subterminal row of spots, three apical 

 silver-white, lunules, and two more marginal near the 

 middle, the lunules resting on a terminal yellow line 

 edged within with brown. 



The hind wings are dark brown broken by pale yellow, 

 especially in the basal portion, where it is the principal 

 color. A row of large silvery white spots crosses the 

 wing near the base, and a similar band crosses the middle 

 of the wing, broken by brown veins and edged on the 

 outside by a crenate brown line, and a marking of pale 

 yellow beyond. The subterminal row of round black 

 spots is reproduced, part pupilled with white. There is 

 the terminal yellow line the same as on the fore wings, 

 with a row of silver-white lunules, the middle and two 

 apical much the largest. 



The eggs are deposited in clusters of about a hundred 

 on the under side of the food-plant. They are whitish 

 green, somewhat in the form of a truncated cone, the 

 lower third of the outside smooth, the middle part 

 marked with hexagonal cells, and the top by longitudinal 

 ribs. They hatch in from nine to thirteen days. 



The young larva is .06 of an inch long, with a dark 



brown head, and a yellowish green body clouded with 



brown, with scattered black hairs. After the first moult 



it is smoky brown, and, like Melitsea, armed with seven 



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