"Forewing with basal area grey, outer area red-brown; the lines and stigmata grey; hindwing dull grey with a dark lunule and transverse line and the fringe reddish; as a rule the male is paler than the female; a very variable species alike in colour and plainness of markings; ab.

mendica F. is like the last but shows black or dark brown spaces in the cell; — ab.

has the ground colour yellowish ochreous, with the markings distinct; — primulae Esp.

ochrea-virgata Tutt is a banded form, the whole space between the median and subterminal line being darker; — ab.

grisea Tutt is a small dark grey form, the stigmata clear; — ab.

coerulea Tutt is of a clear slaty or lilac colour with pale stigmata; — lastly, ab.

)is smaller, with narrower, more pointed forewing, reddish brown varied with yellowish; the stigmata large with dark marks in cell; described originally from Iceland and occurring in Shetland and Lapland; — ab.