34 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, edged with white ; remainder of tliorax white or 

 greyish-white, faintly streaked with brown ; top and back- 

 crests short and rather flattened, tipped with purple-brown ; 

 fascicles white : abdomen pale brown, tinged with brighter 

 brown and purple ; on the dorsal ridge are from three to six 

 oblique smoky-brown crests, the second and third the largest 

 and tipped with black ; lateral and anal tufts rather spreading, 

 tinged with purple-brown. Fore wings long, rather ovate ; 

 costa gently curved ; apex angulated ; hind margin very 

 oblique, and curved with a full sweep round the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin also slightly rounded ; colour ashy-grey, 

 clouded with purple-brown ; from below the middle of the 

 base arises a straight, deep black longitudinal streak, usually 

 connected, by black clouding, with another similar streak lying 

 along the dorsal margin ; basal line only indicated by a faint 

 black dot on the costa ; first line broadly angulated and very 

 oblique, black ; second line also oblique, black, edged out- 

 wardly with white from the dorsal margin to the middle, 

 thence only indicated by an ashy-white edging ; the space 

 between these two lines broadly and richly clouded with 

 chocolate-brown, intensified toward the dorsal margin, near 

 to which is a deep black longitudinal bar uniting the two 

 lines ; subterminal line silvery-white, most distinct in the 

 dorsal half of the wing, angulated and enclosed between 

 black and chocolate clouding, but in the middle formed into 

 a white V, which is placed between two nervures, sharply 

 edged with white, and also enclosing a short black streak ; 

 above this are three rather longer black streaks placed upon 

 nervures, leaning toward the apes of the wing, and enclosed 

 in purple-brown clouds ; orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 only faintly perceptible, grey-brown, slenderly ringed with 

 black ; just outside the second line and close to the anal 

 ano-le the white edging is expanded into a conspicuous white 

 spot, outside which is a chocolate-black cloud ; cilia pale 

 brown, regularly dashed with white. Hind wings not very 

 broad and rather shortened toward the anal angle ; whitish- 



