74 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with very fine down in front, purple-brown ; palpi porrected 

 but depressed, broadly tufted, purple-brown, apical joint 

 hardly visible ; head purple-brown, smoothly but rather 

 prominently tufted, and having a white tuft round the 

 base of each antenna ; collar smooth with closely appressed 

 scales, orange-yellow at the base, upper portion very broadly 

 banded with purple, and divided into two crescents by the 

 pressure forward of the top crest, which is tall and 

 pyramidal, dark purple ; back crest hardly noticeable, but 

 the whole thorax dull purple, except an orange cloud down 

 the shoulder- lappets ; fascicles short, downy, yellowish- 

 white ; abdomen long and stout, whitish-brown with a 

 distinctly purple bloom ; on the basal segment is a flattened 

 dull purple tuft or crest, which however often appears as a 

 mere dark spot; lateral tufts small but raised on each side 

 on a folded ridge; anal tuft short and broad. Fore wings 

 broad and rather pointed ; costal margin nearly straight, 

 but curved a little toward the apex which is rather acutely 

 angulated ; hind margin below it very faintly hollowed, filled 

 out below and bent in toward the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 rather full, bent inward, and rolled up and tufted near the 

 base; colour rich orange-yellow dusted and rippled with 

 purplish-fulvous ; basal Hue double, purple, formed into two 

 curves, the outer line being the edge of a broad purple 

 stripe, in which is an orange spot ; close to the outer edge 

 of this is the first line, perpendicular, nearly straight, 

 slender, chocolate-red ; second line of the same colour, very 

 oblique, disposed in regular crescents, and followed at a 

 slender interval by a broad oblique purple stripe, the 

 outer margin of which is the subterminal line and is much 

 curved and indented ; orbicular stigma round ; reniform very 

 large and upright ; claviform forming a distinct loop ; all 

 three of a paler orange-yellow colour, dotted, the reniform 

 especially, with chocolate-red atoms, and edged with purple- 

 brown ; the remaining space between the first and second 

 lines much clouded, and in the middle crowded, with chocolate- 



