30 LEPlllOPTERA. 



four curved and rijipled. parallel, soft yellow-brown transverse 

 lines ; costa of fore win«;s tinned with coppery brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, finely notched, 

 yellowish-white ; palpi minute, and with the face, dark 

 chocolate ; head and thorax yellowish-white ; abdomen smooth, 

 very slender, brownish-white; anal tuft rather yellower. 

 Fore wings broad ; costa gently arched : ape.x strongly 

 rounded, as also is the hind margin ; dorsal margin tolerably 

 straight, densely ciliated ; colour very glossy, silky, pale 

 yellow ; costal region tinged with reddish-brown or coppery- 

 brown which rather shades off below the subcostal nervure ; 

 first and second lines somewhat distinct, sinuous and somewhat 

 parallel, yellow-brown ; central line less distinct but similar, 

 all three well marked by brown spots on the costa ; beyond 

 the second is a rather broader similar line or shade, and 

 another lies along the hind margin, both rich creamv vellow- 

 browu ; discal spot a small black dot, extreuK' hind margin 

 dotted with brown-black ; cilia shining pale yellow. Hind 

 wings of a rather paler shade of yrllow-white ; central spot 

 (Jistiiicf, black ; preceded by one. and followed bv three 

 faint, slender, jiarallel. yellow-brown lines or cloudv stripes; 

 hind margin shaded with the same and faintly dotted with 

 black ; cilia creamy silky whitish-yellow. Female quite 

 similar. 



Underside of tlie fore wings pale yellow, cloudeil nn<l 

 dusted with pale brown, and darkest toward the base: hind 

 wings similar but a little paler : the discal and central dots 

 distinct and the transverse lines on all the wings repeated, 

 or rather emphasised in broader, brownish clouding. Body 

 and legs pale yellow-brown. 



\'ery constant in colour and markings: but varyinii- in 

 size. 



On the wing in .luue and -luly. 



Lauva nearly half an inch long; stent and rather stum))\- 

 in appearance; face flat; head notched on the crown, rather 



