JiOA RMID^—A BRA XAS. 265 



Antennae of the raale simple, but so strongly ciliated as to 

 appear bristly under a lens, purplish-brown ; palpi very 

 minute, brown ; tongue moderately long ; eyes pale leaden- 

 black ; head black ; thorax dark brown, barred with black, 

 and on the collar and shoulder-lappets barred with white ; 

 abdomen smooth, orange-yellow, with a row of brown spots 

 down the dorsal ridge, and several rows of smaller black 

 spots, placed alternately, down the sides ; lateral tufts 

 orange-yellow ; anal tuft black, tipped with yellow. Fore 

 wings rather ovate ; costa strongly arched ; apex rounded ; 

 hind margin gently curved and rather oblique ; dorsal mar- 

 gin nearly straight, ciliated ; colour white ; at the base is a 

 dark tawny-brown blotch, containing a more fulvous cloud 

 and some glistening blue-white scattered scales ; this occupies 

 the whole base, and its well-defined outer edge may possibly 

 represent the usual first line ; the second line is more definitely 

 indicated by an oblique, and rather curved, row of faint 

 grey, or smoky, spots which arises from a large rounded 

 blotch of rich brown clouded with tawny, and dusted with 

 glistening blue scales, lying upon the dorsal margin just 

 before the anal angle ; opposite to it is a smaller brown cloudy 

 spot on the costa having a similar dot at its apex ; discal 

 spot a brownish ring, or else a white spot, in either case 

 lying in a rounded smoky-grey cloud, immediately before 

 which two or three smaller similar spots suggest a central 

 shade ; costa edged with smoky-brown ; hind margin with 

 cloudy grey spots, often supplemented by a far larger one in 

 the middle ; cilia partially white, but much coloured by the 

 marginal spots. Hind wings ample, elongated, rounded 

 behind ; central spot small, rounded, smoky-grey, sometimes 

 supplemented by a similar spot just above ; beyond it is a 

 row of four or five such spots forming a curved transverse 

 series which ends on the dorsal margin in a large round red- 

 brown blotch dusted with glistening blue scales ; cilia white, 

 often with one or more smoky-grey spots. Female often 

 slightly larger, but extremely similar. 



