Conformist

L. furcifera Hubn. (= bifurca Esp., conformis Hbn.) (30 i). Forewing purplish grey irrorated with olive; a thick black streak from base below cell, upcurved and forked, edged above by a white line; another from claviform to outer line; lines black, edged with pale grey, fairly distinct; claviform and orbicular pale blue grey edged with black; reniform inwardly bearing a fulvous crescent, its lower edge curved and black; a dark median shade and a narrow one before submarginal line; hindwing brownish fuscous, darker towards termen, sometimes showing a large cellspot and dark outer line; ab. rufescens Spul. has the forewing more or less flushed with reddish; nearly all of these, however, seem to be females, while the males remain dark purple grey without the red tinge; — ab. suffusa Tutt from the West of England is violet black; ab. variegata Spuler corresponding to the zinckenii form of lamda is much more variegated, the dark markings being relieved by silvery grey. — Larva red brown or earth brown marbled with black dots and streaks; the lines pale yellow; a dorsal series of diamond shaped marks and subdorsal series of oblique black streaks; another form of the larva is said to be green marked with yellow. The wingspan is 42–48 mm.