320 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, shaded behind witli rcd-browii ; central band rather 

 narrow, darkest at the margins and on the nervures. Hind 

 wings pale smoky-brown, crossed by slender darker lines. 



Antonnif of the male rather short, simple, minutely 

 ciliated, liright light bmwn ; ])alpi slender, projecting, black- 

 bniwn ; t'ac-i- dark brown below, whitish above; head, neck- 

 ridge and thorax brownish-white dusted with black ; the 

 back tuft a blunt ridge : abdomen short. grey-Vjrown dusted 

 with white, lateral tufts whitish brown ; anal tuft small, com- 

 pressed. Fore wings broad but a little elongated toward 

 the tip ; costa arched at the base, more strongly so toward 

 the apex, Init rather straight between : apex distinctly 

 angulated ; hind margin rrenulated, oblique, hardly curved 

 except at the anal angle: dorsal margin a little rounded; 

 colour pale purple-brown, shaded with reddish-brown ; basal 

 line erect, double, black: first line also double, black, ratlier 

 more obli(jue, the intermediate sjiace clouded with black so as 

 to form a stripe ; second line not far beyond it, rather more 

 obli(|ue, placeil mainly in flattened curves, but iiaving two 

 short bluntly angulated projections above the middle, this 

 also is black, throws black clouding inward, and is edged 

 outwardlv bv a slender grey ])arallel line ; tiie enclosed 

 central band is further shaded in some degree with smoky- 

 brown, and has one or two delicate black lines ])ai'allel with 

 its margins; hinder area broadly clouded with i-id-brown or 

 faint tawny in an obscure band wliich is edged by the irre- 

 "•ular white subterminal line : nervures obscurely yellowish- 

 white, spotted with black ; extreme hind margin edged by 

 an undulating interrupted black line; cilia smoky -brown 

 clouded with white. Hind wings elongated but broad, 

 deeply scallo]ied Ijehind and forming long ])oints or crenu- 

 lations on the margin : pale smoky-brown faintly barred by 

 two pairs of slender rather darker transverse lines ; along 

 the hind marginal area is a smoky-white obscure stripe, 

 edged bv a zigzair black marginal line; cilia pale brown, 

 tijiped with white. Female similar, often a little larger. 



