LARENTID.E—EUBOLtA. T 



pointed, pale brown ; head and face white ; thorax slate- 

 grey ; abdomen ashy-grey faintly barred at the edges of the 

 segments with white ; lateral and anal tufts rather spread- 

 ing. Fore wings trigonate, pointed, the base narrow ; costa 

 very faintly arched at the base and apex, flattened between ;. 

 apex angulated ; hind margin below it almost straight to the- 

 middle, more rounded off below; dorsal margin rather full ; 

 colour shining slate-grey, sometimes tinged behind with 

 brown, and somewhat glistening ; basal line a very slender 

 red-brown thread; first line rather thicker and more dis- 

 tinct, straight and erect, red-brown ; second line of the same 

 colour or very slightly darker, more oblique and very direct \ 

 shaded broadly inside througliout except at the costa ; 

 beyond it is an indistinct, much rippled, whitish-grey sub- 

 terminal line, sometimes shaded at the back with slightly 

 darker grey than the ground colour; from it, above the 

 middle, a slender red-brown line runs obliquely into the apex 

 of the wing; discal spot minute, black; extreme hind 

 margin edged with a slender red-brown line ; cilia shining 

 slate-grey. Hind wings rather long, but ample, rounded 

 behind, pale smoky-grey or smoky-white, indistinctly barred 

 with a white shade, and occasionally at the back of this with a 

 faint smoky line ; cilia shining pale grey. Female a little 

 smaller, the abdomen stouter, the fore wings narrower and. 

 more pointed, and paler in colonr, often whitish-grey ; the 

 markings brighter and more distinct ; hind wings very pale, 

 often white. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-colour, tinged with 

 rufous along the costa and apex; discal spot smoky-black. 

 Hind wings smoky-grey, tinged all over with rufous. Body 

 and legs grey. 



There is considerable variation in both sexes in the depth 

 of the ground colour, to dull brownish-slate colour in one 

 direction and to bright shining white-grey in the other ; also- 

 in the depth of colour and breadth of shading of the oblique 

 second line, with proportionately greater or less distinctness- 



