io8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



margin scalloped ; colour orange-j-ellow with the nervares 

 purple ; a broad deep purjjle marginal band on all the wings, 

 arises on the fore wing from the costa before the apex. 

 Female pale yellow with a slightly different marginal band. 



Antenna3 of the male pectinated with oblique, rather 

 slender, ciliated teeth, blackish-brown, the shaft yellow- 

 white; j^alpi small, reddish-ochreous ; face similar, smooth, 

 separated from the upper portion of the head, which is 

 golden-yellow, by a transverse furrow ; collar dull purple ; 

 remainder of thorax rather smooth, yellow, dusted with 

 purjile ; abdomen slender, smooth, dull pale yellow ; lateral 

 tufts minute ; anal tuft pointed. Fore wings short, broad, 

 and truncate ; costa arched throughout ; apex bluntly augu- 

 lated ; hind margin perpendicular to the middle, thence a 

 little rounded off; dorsal margin ciliated, nearly straight ; 

 colour orange-yellow dusted with purple ; nervures all purple ; 

 first line slender, much curved, purple, with a superficial 

 leaden hue, which also is continued alone: the costa back to 

 the base ; second line leaden-black, very sinuous, and throw- 

 ing out a blunt angle in the middle ; the whole hind-marginal 

 area beyond it dark purple, faiutly clouded in the middle 

 with golden-yellow, and forming a very handsome broad 

 marginal band ; discal spot obscure, red-black ; cilia dark 

 purple. Hind wings broad, rounded behind, but with a hollow 

 in the margin below the apex ; orange-yellow, dusted to 

 beyond the middle with short purple streaks ; nervures purple ; 

 continuously with the second line of the fore wings is a 

 slender, sinuous, black transverse line, which forms the inner 

 edge of a broad dark purple marginal band, as in the fore 

 wings ; cilia pur2)le, tipped with white. Female very different; 

 antennas simple ; body stouter and a little shorter ; ground 

 colour of all the wings pale yellowy without any dusting or 

 stippling of pur])le between the first and second lines, or in 

 this space any similar colouring of the nervures ; but in the 

 small space before the first line of the fore wings it is as in 

 the male ; the second line is usually more elbowed outwards 



