14 l.EPIDOPTERA. 



purple-grey, shaded with purple-brown; firstlinebranched, dull 

 white, enclosing a dorsal red triangular patch ; second line 

 faint, sinuous, in a red cloud. Hind wings pale smoky-brown. 

 Antenuie of the male simple, bent back at the base, but 

 not noticeably thickened, yellow-brown ; palpi very slender, 

 curved up. pointed, black-brown ; head and collar rust-red ; 

 thorax glistening purple-grey ; abdomen blackish-grey with 

 a faint yellowish edging to each segment. Fore wings 

 elongated, not narrosv ; costa gently arched ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin curved, and slightly oblique ; 

 colour purple-brown, much dusted in the middle area with 

 ashy-white ; basal area purplish-grey ; first line apparently 

 branched just below the costa into two white lines which 

 ■enclose a bright purple-red spot, in the form of an isosceles 

 triangle, resting on the dorf;al margin ; outside this a broad 

 •cloud of pearly-grey or bluish-white proceeds obliquely to 

 the costa and encloses two faint black discal dots ; second 

 line oblique, sinuous, silvery-grey, running through a large 

 purple-brown cloud, which at the hind margin shades off to 

 silvery-grey ; cilia extremely glossy, grey, with a black 

 basal line. Hind wings rather broad and short, flatly 

 rounded behind, shining pale smoky-brown ; the nervures 

 blacker, and ciiia a little paler. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining leaden black ; hind 

 wings of the same colour or a little paler. Body as on the 

 upper side, but the anal tuft ochreous. 



A little variable in the depth of colour and I'ichness of the 

 markings, and in rare instances having the silvei^-grey 

 shading obliterated by rich purple-red colouring. I have 

 such an example from .South Wales. 

 On the wing in July and August. 



L.\KVA cylindrical, moderately stout, light pea-green with 

 bright purplish-pink .subdorsal stripes ; head pale brown ; 

 eyes darker ; dorsal and anal plates green, the purple-pink 

 stripes continued upon the dorsal plate. 



