t64 LEPIDOPTERA. 



orange ; fore wings with two, and hind with one, slender 

 transverse indented black line. 



Antennge of the male pectinated to the tip, teeth long, 

 solid, thickly ciliated, dull dark brown, shaft whiter ; palpi 

 very small; head rough, greyish- brown : thorax slender, 

 not very rough, olive-brown ; abdomen rather smooth, 

 slender, whitish-brown ; lateral tufts hardly perceptible ; 

 anal tuft small. Fore wings slightly elongated ; costa very 

 faintly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin regularly 

 curved and most minutely crenulated ; dorsal margin also a 

 little rounded ; colour greenish-grey or pale olive-brown, 

 clouded with dark olive-brown or black, the base especially 

 dusted with black ; first line curved, nearly erect, black, and 

 throwinir out a black dash on each nervure ; second line 

 black, thickened on the nervures, curved strongly outward, 

 and back, and disposed throughout in crescents, at the costa 

 thickened ; partly edged on the outer side with white cloud- 

 ing ; discal spot black, rather ovate, obscured by an olive- 

 brown cloud ; hind margin clouded with olive-brown, and 

 edged by a i^ow of black dots ; cilia white, dashed with 

 smoky-black, and clouded with olive-brown. Hind wings 

 rounded behind, scalloped and crenulated ; dusky white, 

 clouded and stippled with olive-brown, more especially to- 

 ward the hind margin, but in some degree also near the base : 

 just beyond the middle is a transverse black line disj^osed in 

 crescents and sharp angles ; central spot obscure, smoky- 

 black ; hind margin dotted with black ; cilia pale olive-brown 

 mixed with white. Antenna? of the female simple ; body 

 rather stouter ; otherwise similar. 



Underside of all the wings dusky white ; the fore wings 

 much clouded with smoky-grey or smoky-black ; costa 

 repeatedly barred with the same ; discal spot smoky-black ; 

 second line faintly visible and partly duplicated; central 

 spot of the hind wings smoky-brown, followed at some 

 distance by an obscure sieader black transverse line. Body 

 and legs brownish-white; the latter without tufts; tibias 

 smoky-brown barred with white. 



