284 LEPWOPTERA. 



larjjfe, pale tawny or whitish-brown ; basal blotch and central 

 band botli broad, red-brown, thfir inareins ranch augnlated 

 and ei]<red with white ; a large lunate red-brown blotch under 

 the apex of the wing. Hind wings stnoky-white, with brown 

 rippling. 



Antennie of the male simple, ciliated, reddisi)-brown, the 

 bases tufted with wliito scales; palpi blunt, ]irojecting, pale 

 chocolate, edged beneath with white ; face, iiead, and neck- 

 ridge light brown ; tliorax umbreous, the tuft at the back 

 rather erect; abdomen long, reddish-brown, slenderly edged 

 on each segment with white ; lateral and anal tufts well 

 developed. Fore wings elongated, costa regularly arched to 

 far beyond the middle, apical portion more rounded; apex 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin almost straight to near the 

 anal angle, where it is rounded oil'; dorsal margin rather 

 filled out; colour shining rich chocolate-brown; Ijasal line 

 unusually far out, repeatedly angulated, black edged with 

 white ; it encloses a large handsome basal red-brown blotch, 

 in which is a faint angulated white line; first line lilack- 

 brown, I'epeatedjy and strongh* angulated, edgfd with wjiite ; 

 the space between the two lines so fully occupied by tawny- 

 brown clouds formed into loops, as to leave these white 

 edgings very narrow ; second line erect, black-brown, vei-y 

 sinuous and having strong rounded outward iirojections in 

 its middle, also edged with a wliite line ; the s]iace between 

 the first and secoiul lines forms a striking and handsome 

 red-brown central band faintly marliled in the middle with 

 curved black lines, and having two brownish-white spots on 

 the costa ; below the apex is a red-1)rown somewhat crescent- 

 shaped blotch lying along the upper portion of the hind 

 margin ; between this and the second line the space is 

 beautifully rippled with soft fulvous cloudy lines, enclosed by 

 which is a series of conical and crescent shaped brown spots 

 lying in the hollows of the scallojied white subterminal line ; 

 cilia light brown intersected witli darker brown, but clouded 

 and also ti]iped with white. Hind wings broad and amjile, 



