i82 I.EI'IDOPTERA. 



wings grt-y or grey-bl;ick, all but the central band rippled 

 and (lotted with white ; subterniinal line distinctly white. 

 Hind wings dusky wliite. 



Antenna" of the male simple, thread-like, minutely ciliated, 

 black-brown; jjalpi very small, black ; face, head, and neck- 

 ridge white, much dotted with grey and grey-black ; thorax 

 black-brown, dusted and shaded behind with white ; abdo- 

 men white, dusted and barred on every segment with black ; 

 anal tuft rather loose, not large. Fore wings rather 

 elongated ; costa gently arched, more so toward the apex, 

 which is very bluntly angulated ; hind margin almost 

 straight; dorsal margin a little rounded; colour grey, or 

 whitish-grey dappled with darker ; basal line slender, erect, 

 black, very near to the base of the wing ; first line curved, 

 rather erect, regularly indented, black ; second line not far 

 removed, also black, rather more oblique, regularly indented 

 throughout, and edged outwardly by a white stripe in which 

 is a parallel indented grey line ; space between the basal and 

 first lines filled by a succession of grey or dark grey trans- 

 verse rippled lines, blackened on each nervure ; that betv/een 

 the first and second lines darkened into a grey or grey-black 

 narrow central band in which is a pale costal triangle con- 

 taining the black discal spot, also two indented black trans- 

 versi' lines which meet and form looiJS below the middle ; 

 hinder area of the wings much clouded with dark grey, 

 througli whicli runs the subterminal line, white, complete, 

 angulated and indented throughout ; on its inner side are two 

 cloudy black s]K)ts, one in the middle, the other above ; out- 

 side is a black jiarallel line whicli thickens and becomes a black 

 blotch at the tip of the wing ; extreme hind margin regularly 

 dotted with black and white, two black dots to one white; 

 cilia silvery white intersected and barred with black-brown, 

 the bars slightly protruding. ilind wings long, rounded 

 liehind, but faintly crenulated : central spot a black dot 

 placed far above the middle ; general colour grey-white, 

 clouded at the base with smokv-grev ; dorsal and hind 



