38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



1. C. perspicillaris, Z.; polyodon, 8tam}. Cat. — Ex- 

 pause 1^ inch. Fore wings pale yellow, with numerous 

 longitudinal purple stripes, and similar angulated dashes 

 from the hind margin ; reniform stigma conspicuous, other 

 ordinary markings absent ; hind wings whitish-brown. 



Antenna^ of the male rather stout, simple, minutely 

 ciliated, light brown : palpi broadly tufted but pointed, 

 chocolate brown ; apical joint short ; head pale purple- 

 brown, with a conspicuous transverse bar of erect rich 

 chocolate-coloured scales across the face, and another 

 between the antenua3 ; collar ashy-white, slenderly barred 

 with pale purple-brown and edged with deep purple ; 

 shoulder-lappets uplifted, ashy-white edged with pale 

 purple ; remainder of thorax purplish-white with the small 

 top. and conspicuous back, crest purj^le-brown ; fascicles 

 white ; abdomen pale purplish-brown, much covered with 

 long white scales, and having down the dorsal ridge a deep 

 chocolate stripe in which are placed a large and conspicuous 

 crest on the basal segment, and very small ones on the two 

 or three following, all of a deep chocolate colour ; lateral 

 tufts purplish white : anal tuft fulvous. Fore wings narrow ; 

 costa a little arched at the shoulder, thence hardly curved ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin very strongh" crenu- 

 lated, moderately oblique, hollowed close above the anal 

 angle : dorsal margin gracefully curved ; colour pale yel- 

 lowish-drab, largely obscured by purple clouding which is 

 formed into longitudinal stripes : there is no indication of 

 any of the usual transverse lines nor of the orbicular stigma ; 

 a long and very slender black streak from the middle of the 

 base lies below the median nervure and is shaded on the 

 underside with purple ; below this on the dorsal margin is 

 a more cloudy black streak shaded in a similar manner ; a 

 long purple cloud lies along the costal margin almost from 

 base to apex, and in the middle throws off a broad cloud 

 toward the anal angle, which, however, is partially interrupted 

 by the very large reniform stigma, of a pale yellow, shaded 



