■j'rifida:. 3! I 



clouded outside with red, apical joint conspicuous; eyes 

 smooth, naked, leaden-brown, back lashes erect, thin, black ; 

 head smooth, yellowish-white, with a white tuft at the base 

 of each antenna; thorax very fluffy, yellowish-white in 

 front, more tinged with reddish-ochreoiis at the back, where 

 the scales are gathered into a small tuft ; fascicles white ; 

 base of abdomen covered with yellowish-white hair-scales, 

 the rest pale reddish-yellow ; lateral tufts small, anal tuft 

 spreading, tinged with purple. Fore wings rather narrow ; 

 costa faintly arched at the base and apex, otherwise almost 

 straight ; apex rounded ; hind margin also very gently 

 rounded and crenulated ; dorsal margin straight ; colour 

 whitish-yellow or pale straw ; basal area to the first line 

 frosted with dull purple, except a spot at the base of the 

 costa in which is a slender toothed suggestion of the basal 

 line ; first line double, as the edge of the basal purple patch, 

 supplemented by a slender, parallel, curved and deeply- 

 indented, purple-red line ; second line slender, similar in 

 colour, widely curved and but little indented, followed by a 

 faint parallel similar thread ; central shade rather broader and 

 more distinct, similarly curved and bent, rich purple-red ; 

 subterminal line distinct, similar, thickened and rather 

 shaded, cutting ofE a hind marginal stripe of very clear pale 

 yellow divided throughout by purple nervures ; orbicular 

 stigma round, reniform broad, both clear wdiitish-yellow, 

 except that the latter contains an angulated purplish line, 

 both sharply and distinctly edged with purple-red ; claviform 

 similarly edged, equally pale yellow, in the figure of a 

 complete very flat oval ; nervures all tinged with purple- 

 red, giving the wing a reticulated appearance ; cilia of the 

 same colour, regularly divided by yellow clouds. Hind 

 wings rather broad, rounded behind, white ; nervures faintly 

 tinged with yellow ; a deeper yellow line along the hind 

 margin ; cilia yellowish-white. Female very similar, antennaj 

 simple, abdomen thicker but rather conical, and the anal 

 segment produced to a long point. 



