2o8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Antennae of the male pectinated with regular, even, solid, 

 ciliated teeth to near the apex, a short portion only being 

 threadlike or notched, dark brown ; palpi horizontal, rather 

 projecting, reddish-brown ; eyes minutely reticulated all over, 

 deep black ; face smooth, head more rough, both umbreous ; 

 thorax thick but rather narrow, rough with long scales, 

 umbreous ; abdomen smooth, not very slender, reddish- 

 brown, faintly barred with black-brown ; lateral and anal 

 tufts well developed. Fore wings broad, very satiny in 

 texture ; costa arched at the base and toward the tip, 

 straighter between ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 very faintly crenulated, curved, not very oblique ; dorsal 

 margin rounded, ciliated ; colour whitish-brown or pale olive, 

 clouded and speckled nearly all over with velvety or satiny 

 umbreous stippling, which under a lens is seen to be arranged 

 in perpendicular lines of various lengths ; first line rather 

 erect, curved, of irregular thickness, black, thickened at the 

 costa, edged inwardly by an ill-defined band of the umbreous 

 clouding ; second line much more oblique, formed of short 

 thick black curves, with elongated, thickened black points at 

 their junctions ; bent back and then forward near the costa, 

 and there thickened into a deep black blotch, broadly bordered 

 on the outer side by an umbreous band ; between these lines 

 an umbreous central shade arises from a black spot or blotch 

 in the middle of the costa, joins the ovate black discal spot, 

 and proceeds as a fainter oblique tapering stripe to the dorsal 

 margin ; halfway between the stripe of the second line and 

 the hind margin is another umbreous transverse stripe, or 

 succession of clouds, containing velvety black spots, and edged 

 outwardly by the subterminal line, which is irregular, inter- 

 rupted, white or yellowish-white ; the hind-margiunl region 

 is clouded with velvety umbreous, and at the edge spotted 

 with deep black dots or lunules, which usually throw back 

 streaks on some of the nervures ; cilia pale brown clouded 

 with umbreous. Hind wings broad, rounded, decidedly 

 ■crenulated behind ; pale brown, clouded with umbreous, but 



