2i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the cilia brown ; palpi elongated, pointed, pori-ected, dark 

 brown, the inner side white ; head and thorax brownish- 

 white ; abdomen sliining silvery-white. Fore wings rather 

 broadened ; costa flatly arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin 

 very little oblique, straight but rounded ott' below; creamy- 

 white with a faint browner tinge toward the costa and 

 especially along the subcostal nervure ; the markings all 

 yellow-brown and very delicate ; first line indented and 

 rather erect but faint ; second line erect from near the anal 

 angle, then bending sharply inward and out again so as to 

 form a wide loop, thence direct to the costa ; subterminal 

 line, just beyond it, faint and rather straight, but towards its 

 upper end forming an oblique brown streak which runs into 

 the apex ; orbicular stigma a large ring ; reniform stigma 

 broad and filled up by a faint tint of the same yellow-brown ; 

 along the extreme hind margin is a brown line ; cilia creamy- 

 white. Hind wings broad and ample ; apex angulated ; 

 hind margin rather sinuous; smoky-white, with a curved 

 smoke-coloured transverse line beyond the middle ; and a 

 broader and more obscure similar cloudy band before the 

 hind margin, which last is edged with a brown line ; cilia 

 white. Female similar but a little smaller and its body 

 rather shorter and thicker. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-colour with darker 

 nervures and whitish cilia. Hind wings smoky-white, much 

 clouded with darker at the base, in the middle, and toward 

 the apex ; cilia white. Body and legs creamy-white. 



Very little variable, but occasionally a specimen has the 

 brown colour of the markings distributed over the anterior 

 wings. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Lakva three-quarters of an inch long, tapering in front 

 and a little behind ; segments well defined and plump 

 beneath, each divided across the back by a deep wrinkle; 

 head pale, semi-pellucid yellowish-brown, blotched with a 



