58 LEPIDOPTERA. 



obscure, ratlier oblique, faintly darker purple-brown ; second 

 line also obscure, and similar, cqyparcnfly straight, and very 

 oblique from outside tlie middle of the dorsal margin to near 

 the apex, but the actual line is faint and bends back above 

 the middle ; the space between the first and second lines, 

 and beyond to the apparent extension of the latter, is always 

 uniformly of the dark ground colour, but the straight 

 following space is in some specimens of a very much paler 

 shade of the same, or even purplish-drab, forming a regular 

 pale oblique broad stripe which narrows as it runs into the 

 apex, while in more typical examples it is of the ground 

 colour, uniform with the rest ; subterminal line sinuous, pale 

 yellow, rather elbowed but incomplete, edged inwardly with 

 a very narrow streak of purple-brown, outwardly by a stripe 

 of the same which fills the hind marginal space ; orbicular 

 stigma small, compressed, oblique, purplish-white, clouded 

 and edged with darker; reniform stigma narrow, upright, 

 sometimes crescentic and pointed at the base, creamy- 

 white, clear white, or yellowish-white, sometimes clouded 

 with dark lines and much obscured, while in other instances 

 the white colour extends to the contiguous nervures ; costa 

 spotted with dark brown, and beyond the middle dotted with 

 white ; extreme hind margin slenderly edged with black 

 lunules ; cilia purple-brown with a paler line along the base. 

 Hind wings smoky-white or smoky-brown ; nervures rather 

 darker and a darker shading toward the hind margin, which 

 is crenulated and edged with a yellow line ; cilia yellowish- 

 white, intersected and clouded with smoky-brown. Female 

 rather stouter, with the abdomen more pointed, and the hind 

 wings sometimes darker, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black tinged along 

 the costa with red, and near the base with iridescent 

 white ; hind wings brownish-white with a golden gloss, 

 broadly dusted over the costal region with purple ; cen- 

 tral spot small, smoky-black ; beyond it is a slender trans- 

 verse smoky-black line, beyond which is a clouding of the 



