2IO LEPIDOPTERA. 



black or brown. Hind wings smoky- white or smoky- 

 brown. 



Antenna? of the male not pectinated, but toothed like a 

 saw, each tooth surmounted by a tuft of fine bristles, light 

 brown ; palpi short and obscured by long scales, black 

 outside, pale brown within ; the erect hairs of the eyes 

 noticeable, black ; head rather depressed, hoary-brown with 

 a more purple-grey tuft between the antennas ; thorax some 

 shade of purple-brown, grey or drab, very smooth, but some- 

 times the back scales are drawn together into flat ridges, 

 tipped with white ; fascicles pale grey, much obscured by 

 the scales of the thorax ; abdomen light brown ; lateral and 

 anal tufts spreading. Fore wings of moderate breadth ; costa 

 faintly curved ; apex angulated ; hind margin very little 

 oblique, straight to below the middle, then curved off; first 

 line sometimes visible, formed into large faintly brown or 

 grey curves ; second line only occasionally perceptible as a row 

 of brown dots, very rarely connected by brown curves ; sub- 

 terminal line tolerably distinct, yellowish-white, edged in- 

 wardly bj' small red-brown or black-brown clouds, but broken 

 below the apex, and the portion next the costa shifted 

 back a little and edged behind by a black oblique streak ; 

 space between the first and second lines frequently deeper 

 in colour than the rest, the two upper stigmata situated 

 therein being rather large, indicated in the ground colour 

 and faintly edged with paler ; a still darker but cloudy 

 central transverse shade is broadly angulated as it passes 

 between them ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings not large ; 

 hind margin sinuous, smoky-brown, smoky- white, or smoky- 

 grey ; nervures and hind margin darker ; central spot rather 

 large, smoky-black. Female very similar through all the 

 shades of colour, but with thread-like antennae and a stouter 

 body. 



Underside of the fore wings pale purple-brown tinged 

 with smoke-colour in the middle ; discal cell occupied by 

 long prostrate hair-scales ; costa tinged with pale yellow and 



