TRTFID^, 259 



the head is deep black as also is the collar ; remainder of the 

 thorax smooth, ashy-grey with a few darker dots ; fascicles 

 greyish-white; abdomen very pale drab, the basal segments 

 covered with whiter hair-scales ; lateral tufts minute ; anal 

 tuft large but compressed above. Fore wings broad and 

 rather retuse ; costa straight to near the tip, where it is 

 a little curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin hardly 

 oblique, straight to near the anal angle, then rounded off ; 

 dorsal margin faintly rounded ; colour pale umbreous, usually 

 covered to three-fourths its length with a dusting of slate - 

 white or ashy-white ; basal line indicated by a short black 

 costal streak and a black dot below it ; first line by a 

 triangular black costal spot, and at some distance below it a 

 cloudy brown streak ; second line only suggested by the 

 faintest possible grey-white curve ; the subterminal line 

 usually more distinct, being the outer edge of a brown shade 

 which commences at the costa as a broad brown triangle and 

 narrows downward ; orbicular stigma only indicated by one 

 or two cloudy black-brown dots ; reniform stigma conspicuous 

 chestnut-brown or grey-brown, thickly margined at the 

 back, and dotted in front with deep black ; above, upon the 

 costa, are two more conspicuous red-black cloudy spots ; ner- 

 vures very slenderly brownish-white ; hind margin obscurely 

 edged by a smoky-brown stripe, cilia similar. Hind wings 

 broad, smoky yellowish-white, with a broad ill-defined smoky- 

 brown band along the hind margin, which is edged by a 

 faintly yellow line ; cilia smoky-brown, tipped with white. 

 Female very similar but with the abdomen rather stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-white; hinder portion 

 smoky-brown with a darker band. Hind wings white, dusted 

 with grey-brown ; central spot smoky-black ; before the hind 

 margin is a cloudy smoky-brown transverse stripe ; extreme 

 margin edged with the same colour and a yellow line at the 

 base of the cilia. Body and legs whitish-drab ; front tibias 

 smoky-black, barred with white. 



Hardly variable except in the degree of ashy-white dusting. 



