124 LEPID OP TERA . 



similar, clotted in front and edged behind with black ; shoulder 

 lappets of the same colour, obscurely barred with black ; 

 behind each is a broad black stripe, and between them, 

 edged with black, a pair of white tufts behind the collar, 

 followed by a pale purplish-brown dorsal blotch, and then 

 two small black crest-tufts tipped with white ; the black area 

 on each side of this is blotched with white ; all these rich 

 markings are upon a mass of raised and tufted scales upon 

 the very broad thorax ; abdomen moderately stout, glistening 

 yellowish red, paler behind ; anal tuft similar, mixed with 

 black-brown. Fore wings very long ; costa gently arched at 

 the base and beyond the middle, straighter between ; apex 

 fully rounded ; hind margin very oblique, gently rounded ; 

 dorsal margin strongly ciliated and rather full ; colour 

 creamy-white, dusted and dotted with black ; tirst line erect, 

 deep black, throwing off short streaks on the nervures, but 

 inwardly broadly bordered by a pale chocolate band which is 

 much broader on the dorsal margin ; second line oblique and 

 repeatedly angulated, deep black and rather blotched, edged 

 outwardly by a broad parallel pale chocolate band ; basal 

 area and the broad central space much dotted with black, 

 and in the latter is a cloudy black blotch on the costal margin, 

 which throws off streaks indicating a central shade or stripe, 

 and this becomes again black upon the dorsal margin ; the 

 pale space outside the second chocolate stripe is even more 

 clouded with a dusting of chocolate-black ; cilia dull black, 

 regularly interrupted with white. Hind wings rather small 

 and a little squared on each side ; but slightly rounded 

 behind ; creamy-white, abundantly speckled with purple- 

 brown or black ; the basal portion covered with long downy 

 smoky-brown scales ; before the middle is a similar transverse 

 stripe, and beyond it another, edged outwardly by a faint 

 pale chocolate baud ; cilia white, dusted aud spotted with 

 chocolate. Female very similar, but larger, antennas simple, 

 black, dotted wath white ; abdomen very thick, and sprinkled 

 with white and black. 



