TRIFFD.-Ii:. 3' 5 



a broad central band edged by the straight oblique first line, 

 and elbowed second, contains a central black dot ; hind 

 wings smoky-brown or smoky-white, bordered with yellowish- 

 white. 



Antenna3 of the male thick, rather short, simple, minutely 

 ciliated, light chestnut ; palpi moderately tufted, pale yellow, 

 apical joint rather protruded ; eyes smooth, naked, very 

 prominent, leaden brown ; head rather smooth yet with a low 

 ridge of scales between the antennae, pale yellow-brown or 

 grey-bi'own; thorax smooth, of the colour of the fore wings, 

 the scales at the back drawn together into a flat crest ; 

 fascicles yellowish-white ; abdomen tapering, glossy, silky, 

 yellow-drab ; lateral tufts small ; anal tuft dense, tinged 

 with pale chestnut. Fore wings short, broad and blunt ; 

 costa gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 straight and nearly perpendicular to below the middle, where 

 it is rounded off; dorsal margin faintly curved; colour 

 ochreous-brown, drab, grey-drab, buff, reddish-ochreous, or 

 some other shade of pale brown ; basal line faintly suggested 

 by a pale brown streak from the costa; first line usually 

 distinct, very oblique and straight, its dorsal extremity 

 farthest from the base of the wing, some shade of darker 

 brown, edged inwardly by a whiter line ; second line similar 

 in colour, very even, widely elbowed outwardly ; the central 

 space between these two lines very often of a darker or 

 brighter shade of the ground colour ; subterrainal line faint, 

 cloudy, irregular, whitish, edged with faint smoky-brown 

 clouds; orbicular stigma only occasionally visible as a 

 cloudy ring ; reniform stigma almost equally obscure, only 

 represented by parallel pale shades, except that its basal 

 area is occupied by a round black or brown dot ; central 

 shade when present of a darker shade of brown, sometimes 

 broadly clouded, angulated outwardly ; along the extreme 

 hind margin is a row of black dots ; cilia of the colour 

 of the wing. Hind wings rather broad, slightly emar- 

 ginate below the apex, smoky-white or smoky-brown with a 



