TRIFID^. 24? 



curved; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin expanded 

 outwardly rather than perpendicular, and extremely full, but 

 bent below the middle and rounded off at the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin faintly rounded ; colour smoky-brown abun- 

 dantly clouded with black ; basal line white, edged externally 

 with black ; first line broken into several curves, black, edged 

 on both sides with white ; second line not very oblique, deep 

 black, broken into a series of neat crescents edged outwardly 

 with white ; subterminal line slender, threadlike and irre- 

 o-ular, white, edged outwardly with black clouds ; orbicular 

 stigma upright, rather ovate, brown edged with white; 

 reniform stigma erect, very narrow, black-brown conspicuously 

 edo-ed and perpendicularly divided with white ; nervures all 

 wliite to the subterminal line ; costa clouded with white and 

 spotted with black, and toward the apex dotted with white ; 

 the squared spaces before and beyond the reniform stigma 

 usually black, often deep black ; other spaces between the 

 lines and nervures toward the base of the wing often more 

 or less similarly blackened ; extreme hind margin dotted 

 with black lunules ; cilia smoky-brown barred with smoky- 

 black and minutely crenulated. Hind wings broad and 

 ample, with the hind margin sinuous and faintly crenulated ; 

 dark smoky-brown, more pearly toward the costal area ; cilia 

 smoky- brown tipped with white. Female usually larger, 

 with still broader fore wings and stouter body, otherwise 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black, but the dorsal 

 region broadly pearly- white ; beyond the middle is a partial 

 black transverse stripe, followed by another more obscure ; 

 nervures much thickened; costa towards the apex cloudily 

 spotted with brownish-white. Hind wings smoke-colour 

 dusted with yellowish-white and towards the costa with 

 black; nervures yellowish-white dusted with black; the 

 central spot is a long smoky-black lunule ; beyond it is a 

 broad black transverse line or stripe. Body and legs dark 

 smoky-brown, tibiae spotted with dull yellow. 



