202 I.EPIDOPTERA. 



o. A. sylvata, Srhijf. ,• testaceata, Shnul. Cat. — 

 Ivxpaiisc J inch. All the wii)<rs lirownisli-white with 

 nuiuiTcius irregular pale tawny transverse stripes or lines. 



Antennie of the male simple, thickly ciliateil. pale brown, 

 back of the shaft shining white ; palpi very small, pale 

 brown ; face convex, pale chocolate ; eyes black-brown ; top 

 ol' the head and the neck-ridge white, dusted with brown ; 

 thora.K white, thickly and regularly dotted witli brown; 

 abdomen very similar, the tufts small. Fore wings some- 

 what trigonate ; costa very flatly curved, almost straight ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently rounded ; 

 dorsal margin nearly straight; colour dull white, dusted 

 with brown, most thickly so on the costa; near the base are 

 two faint indications of transverse lines of dusting, more 

 distinctly marked on the costa ; lirst line a faint series of 

 light brown clouds forming a curved stripe; second line a 

 more distinct, and broadened curved stripe of similar clouding, 

 edged on each side by dusted lines of darker brown ; sub- 

 terminal line a series of dark brown cloudy dots upon 

 nervures, so joined by brown dusting as to form a sort of 

 indented line; beyond it is a partial parallel line of similar 

 dusting; extreme hind margin edged with black-brown 

 streaks; cilia while, intersected witii smoky brown, liiud 

 wings rather elongated, rounded behind ; white faintly 

 shatled with Ijrown ; nervures slightly clouded with the 

 same; in the middle is a slender angulatetl transverse brown 

 shade, often duplicated, and beyond it another, [lartly double, 

 and eom]iosed of lirown dusting ; exti'enie hinil margin edged 

 with itrown streaks; cilia white. I'Vmale simihir. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky yellowish-white, with 

 a large smoke-coloured cloud in the middle, throwing off 

 smoky streaks to the costa beyond the middle ; second and 

 subterminal lines visible in the same colour. Hind wings 

 cloudy white with the dusted transverse lines of the upper 

 side indicati'd. Hody and legs pale brown. 



Hardly variable, e.xcept that the second line with its two 



