300 LEPIDOPTERA. 



line much rippled and indented, most deeply to near the apex 

 and anal angle, yellowish-white, partially edged on the 

 inner side with small black cloudy spots or wedges ; orbicular 

 stigma large, ovate, oblique, of the ground colour, and 

 partially margined with paler, but the portions of the discal 

 cell on each side of it filled in or edged with deep black ; 

 reniform stigma also large, more obscure, of similar colour, 

 partially edged, in sections, with black and the paler ground 

 colour ; claviform stigma visible as a small black loop from 

 which two black dashes point in the direction of the anal 

 angle ; from this it results that the space above it and 

 passing through the orbicular stigma has the appearance of 

 an oblique paler stripe ; costal margin spotted with black, 

 but beyond the middle dotted with white ; cilia paler brown 

 dashed with yellowish-white and intersected by a dark line. 

 Hind wings rather small and narrow, rounded, smoky-white 

 at the base, shading off to smoky-grey along the hind margin ; 

 nervures rather darker ; cilia dusky-white intersected by 

 a smoky line. Female very similar, but with the costa of 

 the fore wings more arched and the body stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, abun- 

 dantly dusted along the costal region and the outer half of 

 the wing with dark brown ; costa beyond the middle spotted 

 and streaked with yellowish-white ; cilia spotted with the 

 same. Hind wings smoky-white, even more abundantly 

 dusted with dark brown ; central spot lunate, smoky-black. 

 Body and legs smoky-brown ; tibifB barred with white. 



There is variation in the ground-colour of the fore wings 

 to paler brown, and more rarely to light yellowish-brown ; 

 and still more in the various black markings, which some- 

 times are much emphasised, in others are partially, or even 

 wholly obliterated. Mr. Sydney Webb possesses a specimen 

 combining both phases, being of a pale tawny colour, with no 

 trace of the black markings about the claviform stigma and 

 at the back of the subterminal line, and is only with diffi- 

 culty recognised as belonging to this species. One in the 



