54 LEPID OP TERA . 



streak ; hind margin below this clouded with olive-pink and 

 in the deepest excavation edged with chocolate ; between 

 the second and subterminal lines is a very faint slender line 

 or intermediate striga which forms a wide angle above the 

 middle and is there followed by a parallel similar line ; 

 orbicular stigma oblique, rhomboid, brownish -pink ; reniform 

 stigma only partially indicated by a stripe of the same colour 

 down its inner edge, which unites at its base with the 

 outer corner of the orbicular, the pink colour extending from 

 this below the median nervure ; claviform stigma faintly 

 suggested by a small brown crescent ; extreme hind margin 

 edged by a brown line which follows the undulations of all 

 the scallops ; cilia short, brownish-yellow, tipped with dark 

 brown. Hind wings brownish-white ; nervures faintly 

 browner and tinged with pink ; central spot small, hollowed, 

 dusky black ; beyond it are two slender smoky-brown trans- 

 verse lines, the second of which loses itself in a similar 

 cloudy stripe near the hind margin ; cilia pale pink, with an 

 undulating brown line along the base, and brown tips. Female 

 stouter but extremely similar. 



Underside yellowish-white, the costa and hind margin 

 tinged with chocolate ; reniform stigma clouded with smoky- 

 black, and crossed by a chocolate dash ; beyond it is a 

 distinct, slender, curved chocolate transverse line. Hind 

 wings similar in each particular, but with a large smoky- 

 black central spot. Body and legs pale brownish-pink ; tibige 

 whiter. 



^'ariable in the darker portions of the fore wings, from 

 olive-green to red, but this is partial!}" the result of a kind 

 of fading, specimens which emerge with strong olive-green 

 tints changing gradually to red-brown ; indeed this species, 

 in this respect, shows a wonderful parallelism with Smcrintlius 

 til lev. Occasionally specimens occur with these darker portions 

 of a rich glowing red. One such example is in the collection 

 of Professor li. Meldola. 



On the wing at almost all times of the year, some speci- 



