Garden carpet

Description

• – ab. ochreata Prout has the ground colour ochreous.
• – In ab. neapolisata Mill, the ground colour is much darkened with brown-grey.
• – ab. costovata Haw. has the median band much narrowed and somewhat shortened,
• – deleta Ckll. is merely a rather extreme development of this and need not be separated.
• – ab.immaculata Tutt is a much rarer aberration with the median band entirely wanting.
• – ab. abstersata H.-Sch. shows the opposite extreme of development of the band, which is here darkened completely across the wing; distal area also sometimes darkened.
• – thules Prout is a dark race from the Shetland Islands. The less extreme forms intergrade into ab. neapolisata, but the name strictly applies to specimens in which both the forewings and hindwing are entirely so that the markings are almost obliterated.
• – sempionaria Rätzer is a small race from the Simplon, of a rather purer white than the type and with the median half-band rather small but rather sharply marked."

Biology