i LEPIDOPTERA. 



top or back crest, or both, sometimes noticeable though in- 

 conspicuous, often obliterated by the looseness of the long 

 scales ; fascicles dense, pale brown ; abdomen rather slender, 

 pale brown, with abundant, similar long scales on the basal 

 segments, and sometimes these drawn together into small 

 tufts or crests tipped with dark brown ; lateral and anal tufts 

 purple-brown. Fore wings blunt, oblong, of remarkably even 

 width; costal margin scarcely curved; apex bluntly angu- 

 lated; hind margin below it almost perpendicular, but bent 

 below the middle and rounded at the anal angle; dorsal 

 margin very straight ; colour purple-brown or dark chocolate ; 

 basal line faintly indicated by two small black curves bordered 

 with white, but partially obscured by a black basal cloudy 

 streak close under the median nervure ; below this is another 

 clouded black streak close to the base of the dorsal margin ; 

 first line very obscure and broken by the white nervures, 

 black, slenderly edged on the inner side with white ; second 

 line placed far beyond the middle of the wing, black, broken 

 by the nervures, edged outwardly with white, and followed 

 by a pale brown band clouded and shaded with white, espe- 

 cially upon the nervures ; subterminal line brownish-white, 

 slightly waved and indented, and edged inwardly with 

 chocolate clouds ; hind marginal space beyond it dashed or 

 shaded with black-brown ; orbicular stigma uncertain, usually 

 round or pear-shaped, white, edged with black, but some- 

 times hardly perceptible ; reniform stigma erect, rather 

 naiTOw, but very conspicuous, white, faintly clouded with 

 yellow-brown, and at its base united with the median 

 nervure ; this also is white from the base and conspicuously 

 forked in the same colour, which is often extended along two 

 of the small nervures and sometimes on more, through the hind 

 marginal space ; this last is edged with black lunules ; cilia 

 chocolate-brown, intersected with paler brown and divided at 

 the nervures by yellowish-white dashes ; on the costa is a 

 dull white cloud above each stigma, and beyond these three 

 pale yellow-brown dots. Hind wings rounded but with the 



