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GATE-KEEPER. 41
The expanse of the wings in this species varies from one
inch and a half to nearly two inches. The ground-colour is
pale yellowish brown, marked irregularly across with several
waved brown bars, and the margins of the same colour; near
the tip is a large blackish brown eye, with a white dot, and
there is a broad oblique brown bar extending across the middle
of the hind part of these wings, which is absent in the female.
The base of the hind wings is brown, and they have, fol­
lowing the outer margin, a row of three or four eyes, varying
in size; the middle ones with a white dot in their centre.
Underneath, the markings of the fore wings are nearly corres­
ponding to those of the upper side, but the brown bars are
not so wide, and the oblique one is wanting. The eye is
surrounded by a brown ring, and is accompanied by a smaller
satellite.
The hind wings are neatly freckled with brown and ashcolour,
with many waved marks of a darker shade, two of
them forming a rather broad waved bar across the middle of
these wings, beyond which is a row of six or seven eyes, two,
three, and two, that at the inner corner being a double one,
and these succeeded by a row of darker waves: the eyes are
formed of a brown spot, in which is a black dot, and this
again has a white spot, more or less distinct, in its centre.
The figures are from specimens in my own cabinet.