256 LEPIDOPTERA. 



a black dot in the orbicular stigma, and an upright black 

 triangle in the reniform, outside it two black dots. Hind 

 wings large, brownish-white. 



Antennae of the male simple, cylindrical, rather coarsely 

 ciliated or bristly, light brown ; palpi rather small, moderately 

 tufted, horizontally porrected, pale purplish-brown, apical 

 joint small; head strongly tufted on the face, which is 

 brownish-white, and again between the antennse, the back 

 portion being, along with the collar, black or chocolate- 

 black ; shoulder-lappets and top of the thorax ashy-grey 

 dotted with brown ; back of the thorax clothed only wdth 

 the fascicles, which are brownish-white ; abdomen smooth, 

 whitey-brown, tinged behind with purplish-brown ; lateral 

 tufts minute, anal tuft tinged with red-brown. Fore wings 

 extremely broad ; costa faintly curved, more so toward the 

 apex, which is rather pointed or squarely augulated ; hind 

 margin beneath it faintly hollowed to the middle, and there 

 strongly filled out, thence rounded oft'; dorsal margin also 

 rounded ; colour very light tawny brown, almost covered 

 with a minute dusting of ashy-grey or ashy-white, especialh^ 

 so to beyond the second line ; basal line a faint, short, slender 

 streak of the ground colour ; first line a perpendicular but 

 slightly bent narrow shade of the same ; second a more 

 obscure, often hardly perceptible, slender, undulating line 

 of the same brown colour, closely followed by a similarly 

 undulating band of ashy-grey, beyond which is a broad, 

 ill-defined, cloudy band of fche ground colour, the outer 

 margin of which, when visible, is the irregular, undulating, 

 paler subterminal line ; but all these lines or bands are most 

 obscure and often hidden by the ashy-grey dusting; orbicu- 

 lar stigma represented by a round black-brown dot ; reni- 

 form deep black or chocolate-black, curiously shaped, with 

 broad base, erect, and having the upward extension quite 

 narrow ; outside its base are usually one or two small 

 wedge-shaped dots of the same colour or browner ; extreme 

 hind margin faintly dotted with dark brown ; cilia whitish- 



