23S LEPIDOFTERA. 



dull brown ; abdomen glossy grey-brown ; anal tuft pale 

 yellow. Fore wings rather narrowly trigonate ; costa only 

 arched beyond the middle ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind 

 margin oblique, very straight ; dorsal margin unusually 

 straight ; colour dull blackish-brown, or dark olive-brown, 

 dusted in patches with pale yellow ; stigmata obscurely 

 blacker ; between them in the discal cell is a squared yellowish- 

 white spot; second line dull black, slender, angulated inwards 

 above the dorsal margin, then much curved and broken up 

 into crescents which are shaded outwardly with the yellowish 

 dusting, and on the costa edged bj- a yellow spot ; along the 

 hind margin is a straight slender yellow stripe, regularly 

 divided by the dark nervures ; cilia shining black-brown. 

 Hind wings broad, the apex bluntly angulated, and hind 

 margin rather sinuous ; colour shining smoky-brown ; in the 

 middle is a faintly darker transverse line, edged outwardly 

 with paler; and along the hind margin is a blacker line with 

 pale edging inside ; cilia very shining black-brown. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellow along the costal 

 and hind-marginal regions ; remainder black-brown ; stigmata 

 both black ; beyond are two black-brown cloudy stripes cross- 

 ing the yellow area ; cilia smoky-black. Hind wings pale 

 smoky-j-ellow, with two angulated black-bi'own transverse 

 stripes beyond the middle. Body and legs pale yellow. 



On the wing in June, and in a partial second generation 

 from the end of July till the beginning of September. 



Larva scarcely an inch long ; slightly tapering toward 

 each end from the stoutest part, which is at the fifth segment ; 

 head black and shining ; plate on the second segment either 

 similar or of the ground-colour — which is dull leaden-grey — 

 dorsal line sometimes paler, always edged with darker lines, 

 which run together to form a stripe having a paler line on 

 either side ; subdorsal lines paler than the ground colour ; 

 spiracular stripe pale sulphur-yellow, deeper above, paler 



