Forewing black slightly dusted with grey : lines whitish, the subbasal ending in a grey-edged black . spot on inner margin; the inner obliquely curved outwards; the outer angled at vein 6, indented on 4 . angled inwards below vein 2 . running upwards and outwards below reniform, then downwards again parallel to its former course, and finally running in to the inner line above inner margin; orbicular stigma a round black spot with grey outline; reniform large and black, edged externally by a white bar, which often emits a narrow pale line externally from its middle; subterminal line sinuous, double, somewhat lunulate, with dark centre and pale-scaled edges, except at costa where it is single and white, preceded by oblong black spots separated by the pale veins : hindwing with the cell ochreous white, containing a black cellspot; outer and subterminal sinuous series of ochreous white spots between the veins; fringe of both wings mottled black and white, with pale line at base; underside ochreous white;-ab . " ochrea"
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Spul . the darker brown tints are more strongly developed in median area so as to form a kind of fascia; besides the above already named forms there appear to be two more, equally deserving of a separate name; ab . " ochrea " nov . [ Warren ] is ochreous, dusted with grey, and with a slight flush, rufous in male reddish brown in female, with the lines dark grey and the marginal area darker; the white spot at end of cellas usual; hindwing dirty whitish in male with termen greyer, more wholly grey in female; 2 males from Silvaplana, Engadine, Switzerland, and 1 female without locality; the other, ab . " expallidata " nov . is quite small, smooth pale grey with a flesh-coloured tinge; the inner line hardly traceable, but the outer black and distinct throughout; the lunules and the teeth all alike strongly marked; but the usual marginal dark area is here concolorous with rest of wing; the median vein shows dark below the white discal spot; hindwing dirty white, greyer towards termen : 1 ? from Digne, Basses Alpes, June 1908.
