356 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



The caputal and prothoracic squamation Is dark ashen, thorax and te- 

 gulae with a paler purplish-ashen cast; there is a blackish line on the 

 collar, and the tegulae are faintly edged by blackish scales. Thorax 

 crested in front. Legs ashen, darker outwardly, mixed with whitish 

 scales; tarsi sub-annulate. Abdomen, above, blackish, with prominent 

 tufts on the middle segments; beneath, paler, mixed with whitish or 

 ashen scales. 



Anterior wings large and broad, brown, largely overlaid with pale 

 purplish-ashen ; ornamentation distinct. A dark geminate basal half- 

 line. Transverse anterior geminate, outwardly dentate on sub-costal 

 iiervure where it attains the orbicular spot, directed outwardly obli(|uely 

 till above internal nervure, when it is sharply dentated backwards on 

 the vein. It is brought nearly into contact with the transverse 

 posterior line on the interspace, owing to a corresponding, or rather 

 inverse, reflection of the latter line at this place. The inner compo- 

 nent line of the transverse anterior is faint, but the outer is strongly 

 marked and, at its point of proximity with the transverse posterior line 

 on the sub-median fold, the dark scales extend as a prominent streak 

 or dash, across this narrow portion of the median space. Beyond the 

 transverse posterior line this dark streak is again continuous along the 

 submedian fold to internal angle, and forms a prominent feature of the 

 ornamentation of the species. The brown ground color of the wing is 

 more or less apparent over the median space, and is noticeably perceiv- 

 able above the dark streak from its inception to internal angle. The 

 orbicular spot is large, pale, and outwardly oblique. ^Median shade 

 marked on costa above the orbicular, lleniform very large, but slightly 

 constricted, transverse, narrowly annulated with dark blackish scales. 

 which are especially marked outwardly and inferiorly ; it is pale, with 

 an interior darker sliaded ring conforming to the shape of the spot. 

 Transverse posterior line geminate, its inner component line most 

 strongly marked, slightly inwardly lunulate between the nervules. It 

 originates in two dark marks on costa above the reniform ; in its gene- 

 ral course it is outwardly arcuate over the nervules, running obliquely 

 inwardly inferiorly to submedian fold, on which it is inwardly dentate 

 until it nearly attains the transverse anterior line, thus greatly con- 

 stricting the median space at this point; it then runs oblicjuely out- 

 wardly, and is again dentate on internal nervure before the margin. 

 The subterminal line is dark and irregular, diffusely shaded, and pre- 

 ceded by a narrow pale shade. The nervules are very narrowly marked 

 with dark scales. The external margin is slightly interspaceally exca- 



