232 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dot. Hind wings brownish-white. Female apterous, with 

 long legs. 



Antennee of the male pectinated with excessively fine, 

 small, yet ciliated, teeth extending to the tips, yellow-brown ; 

 palpi minute, dark brown ; tongue small ; face red-brown ; 

 head ochreous ; thorax rather rough, slender, yellow-brown, 

 clouded in front with red-brown ; abdomen short, yellowish- 

 white, more ochreous behind ; lateral and anal tufts dull 

 ochreous. Fore wings elongated, costa almost imperceptibly 

 arched ; apex -rounded ; hind margin but slightly curved, 

 very oblique ; dorsal margin rather full, and well ciliated ; 

 colour brownish-white, creamy-brown, or pale tawny, dusted, 

 especially along the costal region and median nervure, with 

 fulvous ; close to the base is a curved fulvous or tawny 

 cloud ; first line slender at the dorsal margin, but above it 

 almost at once spreading into a broad transverse purple- 

 brown band, which also throws iback its colour along the 

 costa to the base; second line oblique, thick, thrice bluntly 

 angulated and forming the inner edge of a bi'oad purple- 

 brown or tawny irregular stripe, slightly divided lengthwise 

 by yellower colour, and broken at its outer margin ; edging 

 this outside is often a faint white line ; discal spot elongated, 

 purple-black ; hinder area, beyond the second stripe, clouded 

 faintly with fulvous ; cilia yellowish-white spotted with 

 purple-brown. Hind wings ample, rather long, roundish 

 behind, yellowish-white, very faintly dusted with purple- 

 brown ; central spot small and faint, dusky-black ; cilia pale 

 yellow. Female apparently quite apterous, but furnished 

 with minute, veinless flaps of wings, usually not observable 

 without a strong lens ; antennae simple, yellowish-white, 

 abundantly barred with black ; face black ; head pale yellow ; 

 thorax of the same colour, having six black spots placed in 

 two rows ; abdomen thick, but tapering to a long point, pale 

 ochreous abundantly spotted with black ; legs black, barred 

 with pale yellow. 



Underside of the fore wings of the male pale straw-colour, 



