LARENTW.-E—LYGRIS. 2^5 



Stripes spread out below the middle of the wing, and cut off 

 a large dark chocolate costal area from a faint grey dorsal area, 

 the former intersected by the white median nervure which 

 is there forked, thelatter divided up into small angulated pale 

 spots by the white lines just mentioned, the white nervures 

 which cross them and two curious white loops ; the upper 

 of these white loops extends upward and embraces all the 

 middle portion of the brown costal blotch ; immediately 

 beyond is the second line, white and but little curved till 

 below the middle, where it also is looped ; subterminal line 

 broad, meandering, white, forked at the apex of the wing ; 

 all the small outer nervures white ; spaces between the 

 white lines, and outside the subterminal, dark chocolate 

 brown, cut into fractions by the white nervures, and shading 

 ofl' below to olive-brown ; cilia smoky-black, dusted with 

 white. Hind wings small, rounded iiehiud, smoky-white 

 shading oflE to white along the front margin ; before the 

 middle, in the cell, is a pale fulvous spot or tuft of scales ; 

 beyond the middle a slender obscure white transverse line, 

 followed near the hind margin by a broader and more dis- 

 tinct one, scalloped throughout; cilia pale smoky-brown, 

 dashed and tipped with white. Female similar, but not 

 provided with the fulvous patch upon the disk of the hind 

 wings. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, with a yellow- 

 ish-white stripe along the costa, and thence similar transverse 

 stripes beyond the middle ; near the dorsal margin towards the 

 base in the male is a large tuft of long black scales, and above 

 it a faint fulvous patch. Hind wings white, dusted with 

 olive-brown ; central spot smoky-black ; below it the pale 

 fulvous spot of the upper side is faintly visible; beyond it is 

 a slender, excessively sinuous, smoky-black transverse line ; 

 and beyond this is a more direct but interrupted stripe of 

 the same colour; cilia spotted with black. Body and legs 

 whitish-brown. 



Apparently not variable in colour or markings. 



