420 LEl'lDOl'TEKA. 



rusty da.-li rminlniJ- into the apex. lliud win^s white, 

 shaded with suiok\ -brown. 



Anienn;e of the male simple, long, apparently naked, liirlit- 

 browu, whiti.sh-grey at the back ; palpi conical. elon<i:ated 

 and strongly porrected, chocolate-brown, edged above with 

 black ; face rough with long protruding scales whicii almost 

 cover the palpi, white dusted with brown, as also are the top 

 of the head and the neck-ridge : collar similar in colour, 

 edged lieiiiiid by a brown-black bar, remainder of the thorax, 

 wliich is lather robust, ashy-grey or white dusted with pale 

 brown : abdomen long, slender but thickened beyond the 

 middle, whitish-grey ; lateral tufts .^mall : anal tuft long, de- 

 pressed, lore wings much elongated : costa arclu d at the 

 base and apex but nearly straight Ijetween ; apex pointed ; 

 hind margin just i:)eneath it refuse, thence long, very slightly 

 curved, luit rounded off toward I he anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 rather filled out ; colour pale bluish-grey or whitish-grey, 

 dusted or shaded with ripplinj^s of grey and white ; basal line 

 oblique, commencing as a black stripe from the costa, but 

 narrowing below to a slender line : first line double, rather 

 oblique and nearly straight, torming a dark grey transver.se 

 stripe or band, its edges ;ind tlie portions over the median 

 nervure and toward the costa black ; second line also a 

 narrow band, black at the costa, sharply angulated outward 

 just below it, then becoming a grey stripe in which the nei- 

 vures are blackened ; at a short distance beyond it is a fainter 

 parallel grey band, separated from tlie more nuirginal grey 

 stripe by a rippled whitish-grey subterniinal line ; opposite 

 the angle of the second line arises a slender cloud of reddish- 

 brown and black, which runs obliquely into the ape.K of the 

 wing; cilia white, clouded with black-brown. Hind wings 

 long, not broad, rounded behind, smoky-white ; central spot 

 just visible as a blackish dot ; beyond the middle is a rather 

 whiter transverse cloud : cilia white shaded with grey. 

 Female very closely similar, lint usually larger, and haviiig 

 the abdomen a little shorter and thicker. 



