78 LEPIDOPTERA. 



smooth prominent knob which hides the palpi, orange-brown, 

 with a small red tuft at the base of each antenna ; thorax 

 smooth, orange-brown, without crests or markings ; fascicles 

 small, yellowish white; abdomen long and stout, thinly 

 scaled, smooth dull yellow-brown, without crests; lateral 

 tufts small ; anal tuft thick but compressed, orange-brown. 

 Fore wings truncate, the costa faintly curved; apex angu- 

 lated; hind margin beneath it slightly hollowed, perpen- 

 dicular but suddenly curved in close above the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin rounded; colour dull red-brown or red-drab, 

 or even orange-brown ; nervures rather conspicuous from a 

 dusting of white and smoky-brown, the median especially ; 

 two black dots on principal nervures suggest the proper 

 position of the first line, and a row of eight or nine, all 

 upon nervures, that of the second; often a cloudy black 

 spot occupies the lower corner of the discal cell whence the 

 median nervure branches ; extreme hind margin edged by a 

 black-brown line; cilia orange-brown tipped with paler. 

 Hind wings small, with the hind margin sinuous; dull 

 smoky-brown; nervures darker and thickened; cilia dull 

 orange-brown. Female larger, with longer fore wings, more 

 pointed at the apex, and with the hind margin more oblique ; 

 antennte threadlike; abdomen rather disproportionately 

 large, and not tufted, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black from the base to 

 beyond the middle, and in this portion covered with long 

 fluffy brown hair-scales; costal and hind marginal regions 

 pale orange-brown ; nervnres thickened and dusted with 

 dark brown. Hind wings ochreous-brown dusted with 

 orange-brown, and toward the dorsal margin tinged with 

 smoky-black, especially so on the nervures ; beyond the middle 

 is an obscure, slender, smoky transverse line, and nearer to 

 the hind margin another. Body and legs orange-brown. 



Rather variable in colour, from pale yellow to dull red, 

 dino-y blackish -yellow, or blackish -brown, and in the female 

 to drab. Also somewhat inconstant in size. 



