3.24 LEPIDOPTERA. 



slender whitish- brown line edging the collar, scales at the 

 back drawn together into an obscure pointed crest or tuft ; 

 fascicles smoke-colour ; abdomen smooth, smoky-black ; 

 lateral tufts minute; anal tuft narrow, tinged with red- 

 brown. Fore wings short, almost truncate ; costa faintly 

 arched ; apex bluntly and squarely angulated ; hind margin 

 below it straight or almost refuse, but below the middle 

 rounded off; dorsal margin faintly hollowed, but extremely 

 full toward the base ; colour golden-brown or tawny-brown, 

 often clouded with black or dark-brown ; basal line incom- 

 plete, a slender white streak from the costa ; first line oblique 

 and nearl}^ straight, pale brown from the dorsal margin to 

 the middle, thence slenderly white, angulated and broader 

 as it reaches the costa ; second line also straight and oblique, 

 dark brown, very obscurely edged with white for two-thirds 

 of its length from the dorsal margin, then sharply elbowed 

 and becoming more broadly clouded with white as it 

 approaches the costa ; subterminal line perceptible as the 

 edge of a paler shade of the ground colour along the hind 

 marginal space, but toward the costa frosted with white ; 

 along the hind margin is a row of black dots, those near the 

 apex of the wing much larger; orbicular stigma faintly 

 visible as a round paler spot enclosing a black dot; reniform, 

 if possible, still more obscure, but having at its base a larger 

 black spot ; outside it is a darker brown angulated stripe or 

 shade crossing the wing ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings 

 rather broad, slightly emarginate below the apex, smoky- 

 black with a golden gloss, the base rather paler ; cilia shining, 

 pale yellow. Female usually a very little larger, and having 

 rather broader fore wings ; abdomen stouter but very conical 

 and pointed. Underside of the fore wings black, costal and 

 hind margins conspicuously dull orange, the former having 

 also two white spots near the apex ; dorsal margin pale 

 yellow. Hind wings dusky at the base and down the middle 

 area ; before the middle is a broad black triangle forming a 

 sort of half transverse band; beyond the middle a broad 



