338 LEPIDOPTEh'A. 



umbreous stripes, one enclosing the discal spot, the other 

 running into the apex. Hind wings brownish-white, barred 

 with brown lines. 



Antt'iiniu ol' the male simple, strongly ciliated, pale brown, 

 back of the shaft silvery-brown; jialpi jirojecting, brown, 

 tipped with white ; face pale brown, dusted with black ; top 

 of the head rather fulvous, edged behind with black, ueck- 

 ridge and thorax pale brown dusted with black ; abdomen 

 nearly cylindrical, brownish-white, on each segment is a pair 

 of black spots, one on each side of the dorsal ridge ; anal 

 tuft loose and spreading. Fore wings trigonate, rather 

 narrow ; costa gently arched ; ajiex angulated ; hind margin 

 smoothly but rather fully curvc>d ; dorsal margin also a little 

 rounded ; whitish-brown ; basal line oblique, very slender, 

 black-brown, followed at a short distance by another, quite 

 similar, line ; tir.st line faintly curved, umbreous; second line 

 similar, very near it. and placed in the middle of the wing, 

 rather more oblique and a little undulating, but bent back 

 close to the costa; the space between these two lines forms a 

 very slender central band, umbreous from the dorsal margin, 

 but shading off to the ground colour in the middle and 

 enclosing a black discal spot, again clouded with darker 

 brown on the costal region ; outside the second line are two 

 faint parallel brown threads on a broad band of the pale 

 grouiul colour : then four more, etpially slender brown threads, 

 arisiny: from the dorsal marsjrin, become clouded, and more 

 or less united with an obliijue umbreous stripe which runs 

 directly and conspicuously into tlie apex of the wing; hind- 

 marginal area faintly dusted with blown and edged by a 

 series of i)airs of small black dots ; cilia whitish-brown, 

 faintly intersected with darker. Hind wings rather long, 

 s([nared behind, having a decided elbow in the middle of the 

 hind margin ; whitish-brown ; central spot black ; close to it 

 is a faint incomplete brown transverse line, followed by two 

 fainter, and three more distinct and straighter similar lines, 

 all arisint; from the dorsal mai'gin ; hind martjin faiutlv 



