5° 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



space between the first and second lines, except these two 

 stigmata, is filled in with velvety black, flushed with purple-red 

 or deep red-brown, and forms a conspicuous central baud ; 

 outside the reniform stigma is a light purple cloud in the band 

 of ground colour ; hind marginal region broadly clouded with 

 deep dark purple-brown ; costa spotted with black at the 

 origin of each line, beyond the second faintly dotted with 

 pale yellow ; extreme hind margin edged with a yellow- 

 brown line; cilia purple-brown dashed with darker. Hind 

 wings pale smoky-brown shading to white at the base, but 

 the costal region broadly iridescent; above the anal angle 

 are two faintly whiter partial transverse stripes — very 

 obscure ; cilia smoky golden-brown. Female extremely 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-umbreous, dorsal 

 region iridescent; reniform stigma pale yellow. Hind 

 wings dusky white with a golden gloss, dusted all over, 

 except at the base, with brown ; central spot small, smoky- 

 brown, followed by a slender obscure similar transverse 

 stripe. Body pale golden -brown ; legs purplish-brown ; tibiie 

 dark bi'own, barred with white. 



Hardly variable except a little in the depth of colouring. 



The position of this insect when at rest is curious, the fore 

 wings being folded very closely down to the body and to the 

 middle, sloping down, then longitudinally deeply channelled, 

 the costal portion curving up and then bending down again 

 so that the subcostal region forms a long ridge outside the 

 deep channel ; the anal angle being raised to a point in 

 unison with the long erect dorsal and thoracic crests. 



On the wing in June and July, and occasionally, in far 

 smaller numbers, as a partial second generation, in September 

 and October. 



Larva stout, posterior segments swollen, anal segment 

 almost truncate ; head small, shining glassy-green ; mouth 

 dirty white, edged with brown ; colour either light velvety- 



