LARENTIDyE—EUBOLfA. 13. 



pur])le-bro\vn; face and head pale chocolate; thorax light 

 purplish-brown, faintly dusted with white, flatly tufted at 

 the back ; abdomen tapering, whitish-brown ; lateral and 

 anal tufts small. Fore wings very broad but pointed and 

 trigonate ; costa arched at the base and apex, otherwise 

 nearly straight ; apex sharply angulated and produced ; hind 

 margin hollowed close below it, then vei-y oblique, long and 

 slightly crenulated ; dorsal margin very full ; colour light 

 red-brown ; basal sj^ace occupied by a deeper red-brown 

 blotch, the outer margin of which is the basal line, and is 

 faintly edged with a slender white thread ; first line bluntly 

 and repeatedly angulated, leaden-brown, inwardly edged with 

 white, and forming the inner margin of a broad liver-brown or 

 red-brown central band, bj' far the broadest on the costa, and 

 iuwardly rippled with parallel darker and paler lines; its 

 outer margin is the second line, oblique, undulating, leaden- 

 brown, edged outwardly with white ; liind marginal region 

 and apex broadly shaded with red-brown, intersecting which 

 are traces of an indistinct rippled white subterminal line- 

 often, however, consisting only of pale cloudy dots; extreme 

 hind margin edged by an undulating white line ; at the apex 

 is a small clouded black spot ; cilia whitish-brown, inter- 

 sected and clouded with dark brown. Hind wings very long, 

 broad behind ; hind margin rounded and bluntly crenulated. 

 smoky brownish-white ; beyond the middle is a faint trans- 

 verse darker line ; hind margin broadly clouded with purple- 

 brown, and edged with an undulating white line ; cilia 

 brown, dusted with white. Female smaller, but the body 

 stouter ; fore wings more sharply pointed ; the hind margins 

 of all the wings more distinctly crenulated. 



Undersides of all the wings light red-brown ; beyond the 

 middle of each is a darker transverse line edging a paler 

 band which shades darker toward the hind margin ; body 

 and legs red-brown. 



A little variable in colour, from red dish -brown to purplish- 

 brown, rather more so in the darkness of the margins of the 



