ijS LEl'IDOPTKRA. 



thorax grey, thickly dusted with dark brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, faintly barred near the base with black-brown ; 

 edges of the segments rough with slightly raised scales, the 

 dorsal ridge showing them more particularly ; anal tuft short 

 and thick, but compressed. Fore wings moderately broad ; 

 costa gently and evenly arched ; apex bluntly rounded, 

 almost angulated ; hind margin rather long, evenly curved ; 

 dorsal margin rather full and strongly ciliated ; colour pale 

 grey-brown ; basal line distinct and very oblique from the 

 dorsal margin, where it is smoky-brown, angulated in the 

 middle when this portion is perceptible, more distinct on the 

 costa, and rather blackened on the nervures ; beyond this are 

 several parallel, oblique, and but faintly perceptible, trans- 

 verse grey threads, crossing which is a black streak on the 

 median nervure, and above it a black dot in the discal cell ; 

 beyond this dot is the usual discal spot, deep black and 

 elongated ; and again immediately beyond, a series of deep 

 black wedge-shaped streaks on the nervures, joined together 

 by a grey-brown shade into a partial transverse line ; this is 

 follo\ved by the second line, extremely faint, grey-brown, 

 dotted with black on the nervures and placed in a rivulet 

 whiter than the ground colour ; outside this is a squared 

 brownish cloud on the costa, a black-brown cloud just above 

 the middle, and another above the anal angle, this last being 

 divided by the angulated lower end of the faint whitish-grey 

 subterminal line ; extreme hind margin edged with short 

 black streaks ; cilia pale brown-grey clouded and barred 

 with smoky-brown. Hind wings rather long, dull smoky 

 whitish-brown, darker beyond the middle ; central spot ill- 

 defined, black ; dorsal area repeatedly barred with smoky- 

 brown ; cilia dull pale brown. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-coloured; costa rather 

 paler, barred with smoky black beyond the middle ; discal 

 spot black ; a smoky-black shade runs down the hind- 

 marginal area. Hind wings white dusted with grey- 

 brown ; and barred twice beyond the middle witli i'aint 



