414 LKPIDOPTERA. 



rather smooth, cylindricsil. leaden-bi-own, lateral and anal 

 tufts very small. Fore wings long and narrow, somewhat 

 ovate ; costa strongly and regularly arched ; apex suddenly 

 rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin very long and 

 oblifjue, curving with an even sweep into the dorsal margin, 

 which is equally rounded ; no anal angle visible ; colour 

 ]nirplish umbreous often dusted or minutely rippled or clouded 

 with white or yellow-brown ; markings fjuite abnormal, a 

 lonjr narrow vellowish- white stripe orisrinatinsf at the base of 

 the discal cell, and rather Ijroadened beyond the middle of 

 the wing, runs .sharply into the apex ; two very faint 

 3-ellowish or reddish streaks from the costa, apparently 

 representing the usual first and second lines, run into this 

 stripe, but beyond it are imperceptible, or perhaps are quite 

 diverted from their usual course so as to serve as the margins 

 of two perpendicularly placed oval s]>ots, one in the middle 

 area, the other on the dorsal margin; of these the upper 

 contains one dull whiti- streak and two black dashes ; the 

 lower a dark brown cloud; near the hind margin is a faint, 

 slender, almost straight, subterminal line, sometimes edged 

 with dark brown ; cilia brown, intersected with darker 

 browu and tipped with greyish-white. Hind wings long 

 and narrow, rounded behind, the a])ex longest, and the hind 

 margin very obli((ue, shining smoky-white or ])ale smoky- 

 brown, darkest along the hind margin ; cilia glossy pale 

 brown. Female very similar but the abdomen thicker, and 

 the fore wings slightly longer and more pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy, smoky purpli-brown ; 

 costa tinged with light brown, and beyond tiie middle baiTed 

 with a black s]Kit ; nervures darker brown. Jlind wings 

 shining, pale smoky-brown , cilia paler. Hudy and legs 

 umbreous. 



There is in this sjiecies some slight tendency to sexual 

 variation, some of the m:des being richiy clouded with red- 

 dish-vellow: wliiU- the females tend toward a ground colour 

 of pale brownish-grey. 



