272 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dark brown ; palpi short, blnnt, grey-brown, the apical 

 joint hardly showing; eyes naked, prominent, deep black, 

 without lashes ; head and collar whitish-brown, dusted with 

 purple-brown, the latter barred at the top with dark brown ; 

 remainder of thorax pale brown, dotted with dark brown ; 

 fascicles white ; abdomen slender, rather long, whitish -brown, 

 on the basal segment is a slender erect brown crest, tipped 

 with white ; lateral and anal tufts small. Fore wings very 

 narrow, especially so at the base ; costa almost straight to near 

 the apex, which is bluntly rounded ; hind margin very short, 

 gently rounded ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; dark grey- 

 brown, dappled with paler and darker shades; basal line 

 almost lost in a series of obscure dustings of white and 

 black-brown, which fills the space to the first line ; the latter 

 is indistinct, broken into curved black streaks which are 

 edged on each side with a dusting of white ; second line 

 duplicated but indistinctly so, much divided into crescents, the 

 hollows of which are filled with yellowish-white ; subterminal 

 line a faint slender white or yellowish-white thread, much 

 angulated and indented, obscure and not definitely margined, 

 but sometimes preceded by a row of minute black wedges ; 

 orbicular stigma round, brownish-yellow or ochreous ringed 

 with black, the most reliable and conspicuous marking on 

 the wing; reniform stigma hardly ever so distinct, cloudy 

 ochreous in the middle, with an obscure edging of white and 

 margined with black ; between them and crossing the wing 

 is a dusky central shade ; portions of the median nervure 

 and of its branches beyond the second line are dusted with 

 white ; costa spotted throughout with cloudy black-brown 

 dots ; extreme hind margin regularly dotted with black, 

 each dot lying in a faint yellow-brown crescent ; cilia grey- 

 brown mixed with white. Hind wings large in proportion, 

 rather pointed at the apex, and beneath it faintly hollowed ; 

 the margin thence but Kttle curved, so that the anal angle is 

 full and squared ; semitransparent pearly-white, tinged along 

 the apical and hind margins with dark brown; nervures 



