1 86 I.RPinoFTERA. 



central baud rather darker, edged with wliite dots. Hind 

 wings pale smoky-grey or smoky-white. 



Antenna' of the male rather short, simple, ciliated, black- 

 brown, regularly dotted with yellowish-wiiite ; ])al])i small, 

 projecting, black ; face and head yellowish-white, much 

 dotted with black; neck-ridge and thorax mi.xed yellow and 

 black : alidoineu white, ])lentifully dusted with grey, except 

 at the edge of the segments; lateral and anal tufts white. 

 Fore wings rather elongated ; costa gently arched ; apex 

 rounded or most bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently 

 curved ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; dark slate colour or 

 brownish-grey abundantly marbled and dusted with black 

 and orange-yellow; basal line black, much indented, clouded 

 inside with yellow, beyond it is a similar irregular and angu- 

 lated brown transverse stripe, shaded with yellow ; first and 

 second lines somewhat near together in the middle area, both 

 indented, black, not very oblique, and each broadly edged 

 inside by a yellow-brown stripe, together forming the central 

 band : outside this is a row of small white dots, and the 

 ground colour forms a jiaie grey stripe, followed bv a much 

 indented and scallo])ed band of orange-yellow and black 

 dusting ; this is edged by the subterminal line, yellow and 

 scalloped throughout; along the extreme hind margin i.s a 

 row of white dots enclosed in black crescents ; tilia white 

 dashed with slightl}^ projecting brown clouds. TTind wings 

 rather elongated, much rounded behind, yet crenulated within 

 the cilia; smoky-white with a I'ather whiter curved baud 

 beyond the middle, outside which the hind-marginal region 

 is pale smoky-brown edged with black-brown dots : cilia 

 white, much clouded with grey-l>rown. Female similar, but 

 larger aiul rather stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy smoke-colour, darkest 

 toward the hind margin ; costa broadly smoky yellowish-white ; 

 cilia similar, spotted with smoky-black. Kind wings as on 

 the upper side. Body and legs yellowish-white ; fronts of 

 the tarsi black-brown, dotted with yellow. 



