172 LEPIDOFTERA. 



the dorsal margin ; colour white, slightly dusted with pale 

 brown, and clouded a little with black, especially so toward 

 the base ; hrst line much curved, black, thickened on the 

 costal and dorsal margins ; second line but little beyond the 

 middle of the wing, erect close to the dorsal margin, 

 then curved out and recurved, but almost composed of 

 pointed black spots placed upon nervures ; between these 

 lines, but suffusing the second, is an erect smoky-black 

 central shade, having at its inner margin three black spots, 

 one each on the costal and dorsal margins, and one half 

 way between ; just outside it is an ovate black discal spot ; 

 arising from a conspicuous black costal spot, before the apex, 

 is a series of smaller black spots and dots forming the broken 

 inner edge of a white subterminal line, which outside is partly 

 edged with pale brown clouds ; extreme hind margin edged 

 with black crescents, dotted at the junctures; cilia white 

 dusted with smoky-black clouding. Hind wings broad, 

 rounded behind and slightly scalloped and crenulated ; white, 

 faintly dusted with brown and grey, having three dusky 

 black spots or bars upon the dorsal margin, and the hind 

 margin edged with black luuules ; cilia white. Female 

 stouter and having simple antenna3, but very similar. 



Underside of the fore wiugs smoky white, clouded in the 

 middle with darker; costa spotted with dark brown, and 

 similar clouds and spots on the hind margin ; discal spots 

 black ; second line visible, and the other markings more 

 faintly so. Hind wings white, dusted with pale brown ; 

 central spot a smoky-black streak, and near it is a similar 

 spot upon the costal margin ; hind margin edged with a 

 brown line. Body whitish-brown ; legs smoky-black, strongly 

 barred with white. 



In the collection of the late Mr. H. Doubleday in Bethnal 

 Green Museum are some fine varieties, some greatly suffused 

 with black, others having the transverse lines unusually 

 blackened. One in the museum at Dublin, obtained from the 

 New Forest, Hants, has the first line thickened into a broad 



