224 LEPIDOPTERA 



Antennas of the male pectinated with slender solid ciliated 

 teeth, light red; palpi rather short, chocolate-red, apical 

 joint reddish-brown ; eyes naked, superficially blotched with 

 black ; head rather strongly tufted between the antennno, 

 chocolate-red ; thorax similar, covered with long loose scales, 

 the back of the collar faintly edged with paler, scales at the 

 back drawn together into small flat tufts ; fascicles sraoky- 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen dull brown with a purplish tinge ; 

 lateral tufts small, anal tuft conspicuous, light chocolate. 

 Fore wings blunt, almost truncate; costa straight, or even 

 slightly hollowed in the middle ; apex squarely angulated ; 

 hind margin nearly perpendicular to below the middle, where 

 it is rounded off; dorsal margin almost straight; colour 

 purplish-red or brownish-red, almost crimson-brown, slightly 

 shaded with black and with the nervures rather more so ; no 

 indications of the transverse lines except a faint series of 

 minute dusky- white dots on the blackened nervures, repre- 

 senting the second line, and an obscurely pale edging to 

 a slender dark cloud which lies along the hind margin, 

 taking the place of the subterminal line; orbicular stigma 

 round, dull yellow ; reniform stigma of the same colour, 

 deeply indented in the middle: these two stigmata are the 

 only distinct markings on the wing; above each is an 

 obscure dusting of ashy-white; costa dotted, especially 

 beyond the middle, with yellow; cilia pale purple-red. 

 Hind wings moderately broad, the hind margin faintly 

 hollowed below the apex ; dusky white faintly clouded with 

 smoke-colour beyond the middle and with red upon the 

 nervures and extreme margin ; cilia pale red. Female quite 

 similar, but with simple antenute and a short thick body. 



Underside of the fore wings dull red along the costal and 

 hind marginal regions, shading off to pearly-white at the 

 base and dorsal margin; costa toward the apex sharply 

 dotted with white. Hind wings reddish-white broadly 

 dusted with chocolate-red over the costal region ; central 

 spot indicated by a smoky streak ; beyond this is a slender, 



