230 LEPIDOPTERA. 



greyish or smoky-brown at the back where the scales are 

 drawn together into small flat tufts tipped with black ; 

 fascicles smoky-white ; abdomen brown thickly covered with 

 long smoky-white or smoky-brown hair-scales on all the 

 segments; lateral and anal tufts golden-brown. Fore wings 

 very blunt, of exquisite and quite unusual beauty ; costa 

 nearly straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin very 

 smoothly curved and rather filled out ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight; colour soft rich fawn-colour or pale tawny; basal 

 line incomplete, rippled, black-brown edged with ashy-grey ; 

 below it is a thickened deep black streak from the base 

 beneath the median nervure ; first line broken and formed 

 into full curves, red-brown edged inwardly with ashy-grey ; 

 second line not very oblique, but consisting of a graceful 

 series of crescents which are edged outside with ashy-grey ; 

 subtermiual line only visible as the outer edge of a series of 

 deep brown or black cloudy streaks or wedges, but very often 

 the hind marginal space bej^ond it is conspicuously silvery 

 or ashy-grey ; orbicular stigma large, flattened, open above, 

 edged with black below, ashy-grey or pale tawny, this colour 

 extending in a cloud to the costal margin ; reniform stigma 

 tawny-red, open above, edged otherwise with black, within 

 which sometimes the base is white ; space between these two 

 stigmata black ; claviform stigma only very partially indicated 

 by a curved black streak ; often there is ashy clouding along 

 the dorsal region, especially a squared patch outside the first 

 line ; extreme hind margin edged with black lunules ; cilia 

 purplish-brown. Hind wings broad, rounded, smoky-white 

 or smoky-grey, more smoky-brown toward the hind margin, 

 which has a still darker edge ; cilia dusky white. Antennas 

 of the female simple ; body stout ; fore wings a little more 

 obtuse at the tip, and often more clouded with ashy-grey : 

 but very similar. 



Under side of the fore wings dull pale smoky-brown, tinged 

 along the costal region and hind margin with purple ; beyond 

 the middle is a faint smoke-coloured transverse line. Hind 



