LAKEMTID.'ESCOTOSfA. i^i 



regularlv arched ; apex rather sharply angulated ; bind 

 margin faiDtly crenulated, very little rounded and not 

 very oblique ; dorsal margin rather full ; very silky, 

 yellowish-grey or orange-grey, more tinged with fulvous 

 beyond the middle, the whole surface occupied by a series, 

 sixteen in number, of parallel, excessively scalloped, trans- 

 verse black lines, except near the hind margin where is a 

 similarly scalloped orange-white subterminal line ; all these 

 black scalloped lines arise from oblicjue streaks on the costa, 

 and, from their being there a little more emphasized, it can 

 be seen that the second of these is the usual basal line, the 

 eighth the normal first line, and the tw^elfth the normal 

 second ; also that these last two and those between them 

 are in some specimens blacker and a little more distinct, 

 so as to indicate a central baud ; cilia smoky-brown, dashed 

 and tipped with white. Hind wings not very long, rounded 

 and strongly crenulated behind ; silky pale silvery-brown 

 or yellowish-brown, clouded behind with fulvous ; central 

 spot faintly black ; just beyond it are two faintly curved and 

 scalloped brown transverse lines, followed by four more 

 which are faintly dotted on the nervures with black ; in the 

 fulvous space along the hinder area is an abundantly 

 scalloped white line, preceded by a rather thickened dark 

 grey one ; cilia smoky white. In the middle of the dorsal 

 margin is a projecting lobe or tnft of long, deep black, scales, 

 which i-ather doubles down toward the underside. Female 

 quite similar except that it has no indication of the tuft of 

 black scales. 



Underside very pretty ; all the wings pale purplish-brown, 

 with most of the scalloped lines of the upper side repeated 

 in brown dottings ; discal and central spots distinct, black, 

 the spaces before them dusted with black. Body and legs 

 light brown. 



Usually very constant in colour and markings, except in 

 the faint tendency, already noticed, to the indication, in some 

 specimens, of a central band ; or else for the two middle 



