On the fore-wings the field from base to first line was reddish brown
with a faint tinge of tan beside the costa. From this to the
clay-coloured border my descriptive powers fail. You could see
almost any shade for which you looked. There were greyish places
flushed with scales of red and white so closely set that the
result was frosty pink. Then the background would change to brown
with the same over-decoration. The bottom of the eye-spot was dark
only about one-fourth the way, the remaining three-fourths, tan
colour outlined at the top with pale blue and black in fine lines.
The white M showed through on a reddish background, as did the
brown line of the clay border. The back wings widespread were
even lovelier. Beginning about the eighth of an inch from the top
was a whitish line tracing a marking that when taken as a whole on
both outspread wings, on some, slightly resembled a sugar maple
leaf, and on others, the perfect profile of a face. There was a
small oblong figure of pinkish white where the eye would fall, and
the field of each space was brownish red velvet.
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