46 LEPIDOPTERA. 



raised scales of a pale chocolate colour, having between thera 

 a deep depression or channel ; fascicles smoky-white ; abdo- 

 men light purplish-brown, the basal part covered with long 

 smoky-white scales which partially obscure one or two dorsal 

 purple crests ; lateral tufts pale purple ; anal tuft purplish- 

 fulvous. Fore wings trigonate, narrow at the base, rather 

 broad behind ; costa very gently curved ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin oblique, creuulated, faintly curved 

 but bent below the middle ; dorsal margin unusually 

 straight, strongly ciliated and rather rolled up ; colour 

 glossy pale purple or brownish-purple ; basal line double, 

 black, once angulated ; below it on the base of the dorsal 

 margin is a tuft of white scales, and from this, lying parallel 

 with the same margin, a large deep black streak of a narrow 

 wedge-shape ; first line double, black, interrupted at the 

 nervures, straight except near the dorsal margin, where it 

 forms a wide angle ; second line obscure, purple-black, 

 oblique and straight to outside the reniform stigma, where 

 it forms a sharp angle ; subterminal line an obscure in- 

 complete series of small dusky yellow clouds lying very 

 near the hind margin and shaded on each side with dusky 

 brown ; orbicular stigma round, of the ground colour, but 

 centred with golden brown and slenderly ringed with black ; 

 reniform stigma very large and conspicuous, erect, oblong 

 and much squared at the corners, but at its lower inner 

 angle produced into a pointed yellow streak on the median 

 nervure ; colour pale yellow and enclosing two yellow-brown 

 central lines ; on each side of it is a large clouded black 

 blotch, the outer one also rather extended below it ; claviform 

 stigma very large, broadly rounded, filled with black and 

 connected at its tip with a black blotch touching the second 

 line ; middle portion of the costa sjjotted alternately with 

 small clouds of black and yellow, and having beyond three 

 yellow dots ; dorsal margin occupied by a conspicuous yellow- 

 white longitudinal stripe ; extreme hind margin edged with 

 black crescents ; cilia purple, intersected by a brown line. 



