a I.EPIDOl'TERA. 



brown ; top of the liead and neck-ridge reddish-brown ; 

 thorax greyish-white, dappled with brown ; abdomen short 

 and slender, brown dusted with white, anal tuft very short. 

 Fore wings trigonate ; costa very straight; apex rounded; 

 hind margin oblique and very little curved ; dorsal margin 

 slightly rounded up ; colour pale grey abundantly dusted 

 with grej'-brown ; no basal lini;, but its place occupied by a 

 basal cloud of grey-brown atoms ; first line very oblique and 

 straight outwards from the dorsal margin, umbreous or 

 reddish-brown, preceded by a white stripe, and shading off 

 outwardly ; second line rather more oblique, faintly curved, yet 

 not in the least bent back, umbreous or black-brown, shaded 

 ■off inwardl}' ; the space between these forms an obli(jue, 

 unusually straight, central band, sometimes darkened, but 

 the margins always broadly dark, and containing the black 

 discal dot and two very slender parallel brown lines ; outside is 

 a contiguous white line or stripe margined again by one of 

 reddish-brown dusting ; from this a slender oblique dark 

 brown or black streak runs into the apex of the wing ; 

 •extreme margin edged with slender dark brown streaks ; 

 cilia silky ash-grey, clouded with grey-brown. Hind wings 

 elongated, rounded behind, moderately broad ; pale smoky 

 grey dusted with white, or else smoky- white; usually crossed 

 by two whiter stripes alternating with brown ones ; margin 

 distinctly edged by a brown line ; cilia white, shaded with 

 grey-brown. Female smaller, the body shorter but hardly 

 thicker ; fore wings smaller, sharply pointed at the apex, the 

 markings more definite, and the central band often more 

 uniform in colour ; hind wings narrower, but equally long, 

 often didindlij banded with brown and white. 



Undersides of all the wings purplish-red, shading off to 

 pale grey along the hind margins; the white stripe outside 

 the second line of the fore wings distinctly reproduced, and 

 continued, with a considerable angle, across the hind, but of 

 a yellowish-white colour. Body purplish-red ; legs dark 

 jjurple-brown. 



