28 LEPIDOPTERA. 



before the apex are three white dots ; cilia yellowish-white, 

 faintly barred with brown and black lines of atoms arising 

 from marginal black crescents. Hind wings rounded, pale 

 brown or whitish-brown toward the base, and the hinder 

 area occupied by a broad, ill-defined, smoky-brown band, 

 bounded by a straight central whiter stripe; cilia white, 

 tinged with brown. Female very similar, but with the 

 antennae quite simple. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown ; along the 

 costa whiter, and with two white dots toward the apex; 

 beyond the middle the nervures are tinged with black, and 

 the intermediate spaces with golden-brown ; cilia white. 

 Hind wings yellowish-white, very faintly dusted with brown ; 

 central spot extrem.ely small, dark brown ; beyond it are two 

 slender golden-brown transverse stripes, the second close to 

 the hind margin ; cilia white. Body, legs, and leg-tufts 

 yellowish-white ; front tibife brown, barred with white. 



Rather variable in the tone of colour, especially of the 

 central darker broken stripe — from ochreous to fawn colour 

 and darker shades of yellow-brown or reddish-brown — occa- 

 sionally also the central bar is not broken, the white connec- 

 tion between the first and second line being obliterated. Mr. 

 R. Adkiu has a specimen in which this central bar is par- 

 tially obliterated, but along the space of the first line is a 

 broad smeared dull-brown stripe, the portion beyond the 

 second line also forming a smeared umbreous stripe. 



On the wing at the end of July and in August. 



Larva cylindrical, of moderate and uniform stoutness 

 throughout ; head equal in breadth, the lobes rounded and 

 full ; legs and prolegs well developed. Head polished pale 

 green, with an obscure black streak across the mouth ; body 

 glossy, bright but opaque whitish-green ; dorsal stripe broad, 

 nearly white ; subdorsal stripe similar, but slightly narrower ; 

 between this and the spiracles the ground colour is a little 

 deeper, and bordered along the spiracles by a narrow stripe 



