340 LEPIDOPTERA. 



angulated ; hind margin below it oblique but straight and 

 rather filled out in the middle, but curved off below ; dorsal 

 margin nearly straight ; colour some shade of drab, red- 

 drab, pale brown, or red-brown, rather dull and often shaded 

 with darker brown ; basal line suggested by three or four 

 blackish dots ; first line faintly perceptible, double, with an 

 interval, placed in two or three wide, obscure cloudy brown 

 curves which enclose a paler shade of the ground colour ; 

 second line also obscure, oblique but direct, though a little 

 waved, of a paler shade of the ground colour ; subterminal 

 line rather more distinct, irregular, indented, and notched 

 below the apex, yellow-brown, bordered close to the costa by 

 a dark brown or brown-black oblique wedge or cloudy 

 triangle, below this by brown cloudy dots ; orbicular stigma 

 extremely narrow, a mere black-brown streak with a paler 

 margin lying obliquely across the discal cell ; reniform 

 stigma almost equally narrow, oblique in the opposite 

 direction, and edged with paler colouring ; arising between 

 these is a faint slender angulated smoky-brown central 

 shade, and above, on the costa, three black-brown cloudy 

 dots ; nervures usually retaining the paler ground colour in 

 those specimens in whicli the surface is dusted or clouded 

 with darker, thus sometimes producing a rather reticulated 

 effect ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings rounded, rather 

 shining, blackish-brown with darker nervures; cilia dull 

 purple. Female very similar through all mutations of colour, 

 having a stouter blunt abdomen. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black ; costa and hind 

 margin broadly dusky pale red, darkest at the edges ; a 

 cloudy black spot indicates the reniform stigma ; immediately 

 beyond it is a slender commencement of a smoky-black 

 transverse stripe. Hind wings dusky-white, dusted with 

 smoky-brown and toward the costa with reddish-brown ; 

 central spot smoky-black, followed by a partial faint similar 

 transverse stripe ; cilia reddish-orange. Body and legs 

 reddish-brown. 



