THE GRAYLING 
67 
female, 61 mm. The sexual difference is very distinct. Male : 
The costa of the fore wing is arched near the middle, and the 
apex is pointed. A dark band of androconial scales crosses 
the wing. The ground colour is fuscous-brown with bronze 
reflections ; the outer half is clouded with fulvous-brown, 
enclosing two black ocellated spots partly surrounded by 
ochreous. In the hind wing the outer margin is scalloped ; 
The Grayling at rest. 
On a hill top in dull weather and facing a strong south-west wind. 
Sketched from life. 
a broad fulvous band covers the greater part of the outer 
half of the wing, cut up by blackish nervures and a single 
ocellated spot near the anal angle. On the under side of the 
fore wing, the basal half is fulvous, shading into oejireous 
over the outer half, the ocellated spots being similar to those 
on the upper side. The ground colour of the under side of the 
hind wing is light greyish-buff, finely reticulated and marbled 
with dark brown and black ; a transverse, strongly-angulated, 
black median line crosses the wing; this line borders a 
