14 LEPJDOPTERA. 



apical joint a minute point ; head and thorax bright light 

 brick-red, both covered with long loose fluffy scales, those on 

 the rather robust thorax falling back so as to obscure the 

 small top crest, though that at the back is distinct ; fascicles 

 dusky- white ; abdomen short and blunt, rather slender, pale 

 purple-brown, with two or three exceedingly fugitive dorsal 

 crests of a darker colour, but which are scarcely ever visible 

 ill specimens which have flown much ; lateral and anal tufts 

 short, red-brown, the latter spreading. Fore wings short, 

 narrow at the base, broader behind ; costa hardly curved ; 

 apex decidedly angulated ; hind margin crenulated, almost 

 perpendicular to below the middle, where it is bent in, and 

 curved to the anal angle ; dorsal margin gracefully curved, 

 rather hollowed ; colour terra-cotta-red or pale brick-red ; 

 basal line hardly indicated ; first line erect, incomplete, con- 

 sisting of a dark red-brown cloudy spot on the costa and two 

 white curves, edged with dark red-brown, in the dorsal half; 

 second line gracefully and widely curved, commencing on 

 the dorsal margin as a slender erect white crescent edged at 

 the back with dark red-brown, continued in the upper portion 

 as a series of veiy obscure pale dots, or lost in the red 

 colouring ; outside the white crescent is a similarly curved 

 broad pale red cloud ; subterminal line a mere pale edging 

 to a rather darker red-brown hind-marginal stripe ; the 

 central band between the first and second lines is of a deeper 

 brick-red or red-brown, narrowed and sharply and gracefully 

 margined in its lower half; in its upper it includes the two 

 upper stigmata, most obscurely indicated in paler colouring ; 

 cilia concolorous, but with paler dashes. Hind wings rather 

 narrow, with the hind margin sinuous ; uniform dark smoky- 

 brown ; cilia white, intersected by a smoky-brown line. 

 Female a little smaller, with the fore wings slightly narrower 

 and of a more yellow-brown colour, the central bar darker 

 brown, or purplish-brown, the stigmata both paler ; abdomen 

 very much stouter ; not very similar to the ordinary form of 

 the male. 



