98 LEPIDOPTERA. 



upon the costa, but augulated sharply back and continued 

 very obliquely to the dorsal end of the first line ; a large rich 

 orange-yellow blotch occupies all the middle portion of the 

 hind-raarginal area, extending back to and including the 

 middle portion of the second line ; above it is a curved lilac- 

 white shade forming the back of an extension of the orange- 

 j'^ellow blotch to the apex ; cilia purple-brown dusted with 

 black. Hind wings very broad ; hind margin scalloped, one 

 hollow beyond the middle much deeper than the rest ; anal 

 angle squared ; colour pale purple-brown, near the base is 

 a slender black-brown transverse line in continuation of the 

 central sliade of the fore wings, and beyond it a lilac-white 

 continuation of the second, dusted or dotted with black, 

 with which also the dorsal margin is dotted ; across the 

 middle of the wing is a faint band of orange clouding, and 

 the hinder area is tinged with the same colour ; cilia black- 

 brown. Female rather larger, with antennse more shortly 

 pectinated ; body shorter and thicker; wings all paler and 

 more of a pnr]ile-drab tinged with olive, the orange clouding 

 and markings remaining the same, except that the triangular 

 lilac-white or white costal spots are much extended into 

 clouds. 



Underside very beautiful ; all the wings purple-brown in 

 the male, yellow-brown in the female ; with the general 

 surface dusted over with faint streaks of olive-brown, and 

 some yellow shading ; the first and second lines pale lilac- 

 pink, and between them a waved parallel black line, shaded 

 with brown ; all these lines continuous on all the wings ; 

 apical portions shaded with pale lilac, and hind margins 

 with chocolate. Body and legs reddish -brown or yellow- 

 brown. 



Remarkably constant, in both sexes, in colour and 

 markings. 



On the wing in July ; but in confinement occasionally, as 

 a partial second generation, in August and .September, 



