84 LEPIDOPTERA. 



drab clouded with umbreous, two black dots before the 

 middle and a row of them beyond it ; a series of black 

 wedges before the hind margin ; hind wings white, clouded 

 with smoky-brown. Female larger and much paler. 



Antenna of the male notched, each notch bearing a tuft of 

 minute hairs, light brown ; palpi small, narrowly tufted, pale 

 reddish-brown, apical joint porrected ; head strongly and 

 prominently tufted, red-brown ; collar large, reddish-brown, 

 sometimes pushed forward in the middle by a small erect 

 tuft of scales which simulates a crest, but often is not 

 perceptible ; shoulder lappets covered with long, smooth, 

 In'ownish-drab scales mixed with others of smoky-black ; 

 remainder of thorax brownish-drab ; fascicles small, white ; 

 abdomen long and stout, drab, basal segments covered with 

 long scales; lateral tufts minute; anal tuft long, rather 

 compressed, tipped with reddish-brown. Fore wings elon- 

 gated, rather broad behind ; nervures much thickened ; costa 

 nearly straight and thickened to beyond the middle, thence 

 curved to the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 but little oblique, straight to below the middle, thence rounded 

 off; dorsal margin fringed with long scales, especially so 

 where it is rounded in toward the base; colour drab, broadly 

 striped down the costal and middle areas and hind margin 

 with umbreous clouding ; nervures faintly white, edged with 

 dark brown and dusted with black ; down the discal cell, and 

 to near the hind margin, is a narrow sharp stripe of the 

 ground colour in the darker clouding ; basal line suggested 

 by two black dots placed on nervures near the base, usual 

 first line by three, and second line indistinctly by a series of 

 six or seven ; beyond this but before the hind margin is a 

 row of black wedge-shaped streaks lying between nervures ; 

 sometimes three or four brown cloudy dots indicate the 

 position of the ordinary orbicular stigma, and two clusters 

 of more distinct black-brown dots or streaks at the end of 

 the discal cell show obscurely the base and apex of the reni- 

 form ; extreme hind margin edged with black lunules, between 



