82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



We have three species, readily discriminated : 



A. A white lunule on fore and hind wings. 



B. Colour chocolate-red or purple-red, second line nndu- 



latinsf. B. illustraria. 



B"-. Colour reddish-drab, second line erect, straight. 



>S'. lunar ia. 

 A-. No Avhite lunules on the upper side of the wiug. 



S. illunarta. 



1. S. illustraria, Hah. ; tetralunaria, Stand. Cat. — 

 Expanse Ih to If inch, but second generation 1^ to 1-i- inch. 

 Fore wings long, pointed, refuse and strongl}- toothed and 

 scalloped behind ; rich chocolate to the second line, thence 

 purplish-white, with the tip deep chocolate; hind wings 

 pale rosy-brown, banded with chocolate ; a white lunule on 

 each wing. 



Antennre of the male pectinated with short, solid, curved, 

 ciliated teeth, red-brown ; palpi rather short, rich tawny ; 

 eyes shining black ; head roughly tufted with raised scales, 

 red-brown ; thorax stout, thickly covered w^ith long raised 

 fluffy hair-scales, chocolate-red, darkest in front ; abdomen 

 not very stout, smooth, purple-brown ; lateral and anal tufts 

 small. Fore wings elongated and retuse ; costa arched at 

 the base, then straight almost to the apex, which is sharply 

 pointed ; hind margin beneath it scalloped and crenulated, 

 almost perpendicular to the middle, where is a strong pro- 

 jecting angle and beneath it a large and very oblique con- 

 cavity reaching to the anal angle ; dorsal margin a little 

 rounded and finely ciliated ; colour so far as the second line 

 rich purplish-chocolate, clouded on the costa with rosy-white; 

 first line thick, black-brown, strongly bent or curved out- 

 ward in the middle ; second line erect from the dorsal 

 margin to above the middle, where it curves a little outward 

 and becomes more oblique, but again straightens up as it 

 approaches the costa, black-brown ; immediately following it 

 is a broad rosy-white transverse band dusted with purple- 



