1 82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and obscure, hidden by long flat tufts of black and brown 

 liair-scales, and hardly enclosing the tongue; head densely 

 tufted with light red scales ; thorax also very thickly tufted, 

 pale fulvous with a white edging to the back of the collar, 

 white clouding across the middle, and white tips to the rather 

 squared crest at the back ; fascicles smoky-brown tipped with 

 red ; abdomen dark smoky-brown and very short ; lateral 

 tufts small ; anal tuft spreading. Fore wings narrow ; costa 

 very faintly curved ; apex rounded ; hind margin also gently 

 rounded and rather crenulated ; hind margin nearly straight ; 

 colour rich orange-red or deep fulvous, shaded with silvery 

 or purplish tints so as to be rippled all over with soft glossy 

 colouring ; basal line obscure, deep red, placed very close to 

 the base ; first line a broad deep red shade, broken at the 

 nervures ; second line very oblique but curved back at the 

 costa, composed entirely of deep crescents between nervures, 

 each crescent rich bright red enclosing a slender white or 

 silvery cloud ; subterminal line suggested by the excessively 

 waved and indented division between an irregular narrow 

 stripe of glowing fulvous and a narrow uneven marginal 

 orange strijDe ; orbicular stigma broad, often flattened 

 beneath, semicircular, chalky white with a central touch 

 of pale yellow ; reniform stigma also large^ cut off straight 

 below, but its upper portion produced outwardly below the 

 subcostal nervure, bright white with a pale fulvous central 

 cloud; nervures alternately dusted with black and dashed 

 with white, their tips sending white dashes through the 

 dusky-brown cilia. Hind wings small, rounded, uniformly 

 smoky black-brown ; cilia pale brown, tipped with white. 

 Female often similar or even brighter in colour, but otherwise, 

 especially in northern and western districts, much darkened ; 

 antennae simple ; body stout with a small anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings pale purplish-red, tinged in 

 the middle and to the base with smoky-black, in which the 

 stigmata appear paler ; beyond them is a slender smoky-black 

 transverse line. Hind wings pale purple dusted with black ; 



