70 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Autenua3 of the male notclied like a saw, each notch 

 crowned by a miDute tuft of fine bristles, pale brown tinged 

 toward the base with white ; palpi very short but broadly 

 tufted, purple-brown ; apical joint hardly perceptible ; head 

 strongly tufted with pale purple-brown scales which form a 

 raised knob between the antennas ; thorax broad and very 

 robust, densely covered with dark purple-brown scales 

 dusted with white, the collar pushed forward in the middle 

 by the top crest, which is quite narrow yet forms a tall 

 knob; back crest divided in the usual manner; fascicles 

 smoky white ; abdomen robust and rather long, shining 

 mouse-colour, with a very faintly indicated crest of a darker 

 shade on the basal segment, sometimes imperceptible ; lateral 

 tufts small but placed on a raised fold or ridge ; anal tuft 

 short and thick, golden-brown. Fore wings broad, especially 

 so behind ; costa faintly curved ; apex angulated — rather 

 pointed — hind margin beneath it faintly hollowed but much 

 filled out below, curving in only just above the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour dull purplish-brown or 

 mouse-colour, with a satiny sheen, all the nervures minutely 

 shaded or dotted with white ; basal line only perceptible as 

 a faintly darker brown curve edged outside with paler ; first 

 line of the same colour, very slender and obscure, but 

 forming one large curve broken into smaller ones, with 

 the concave side toward the base of the wing ; second line 

 very oblique, nearly straight and parallel with the hind 

 margin, but curved back at the costa and forming the 

 outer edge of a broad, darker purplish-brown central band ; 

 subterminal line irregular and much rippled, merely a 

 boundary between a band of the ground colour outside 

 the second line and a rather darker stripe along the hind 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform stigmata rather large but 

 ouly visible as faintly paler clouds in the dark middle band ; 

 on the costa beyond are three white dots, and near the apex 

 a whitish streak which runs obliquely into the wing and is 

 edged with dark brown ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings not 



