24 LEPIDOPTERA. 



throughout ; costa very nearly straight ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin oblique, curved, strongly crenu- 

 lated, and excavated at the anal angle ; dorsal margin very 

 faintly hollowed ; colour pale umbreous dusted with black, 

 and the dorsal half of the wing strongly shaded with the 

 same, the nervures in particular lined or dotted with black ; 

 an elongated black streak precedes the anal angle ; usual 

 markings only fragmentary and hardly perceptible, but 

 between the dorsal margin and the median nervure are 

 faintly paler angulated streaks representing the first line, 

 and a curved pale streak in the usual place of the second 

 line, which, however, is more fully suggested by a curved 

 series of single or double brown dots in the paler costal 

 region ; beyond these are several dark brown wedges, and 

 close to the hind margin some black streaks pointing inward 

 between the nervures ; these last streaks are edged with 

 pale brown in such a manner as to produce a slightly zigzag 

 effect along the hind margin ; upper stigmata faintly per- 

 ceptible as paler unmargined clouds, the orbicular flattened 

 and oblique, the reniform shortened ; cilia deeply scalloped, 

 pale umbreous with an undulating dark brown intersecting 

 line. Hind wings rather short and small with very sinuous 

 hind margin ; smoky yellowish-white, darkened toward the 

 hind margin, and with the nervures brown ; cilia crenulated, 

 pale purplish-brown. Female extremely similar, but with a 

 smaller anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings very pale brown dusted with 

 darker, and clouded in the middle with smoke-colour ; discal 

 cell filled with long prostrate hair-scales; reniform stigma 

 indicated by a black spot; cilia dark brown. Hind wings 

 yellowish-white dusted with purple-brown, especially so 

 toward the costa and apex ; central spot conspicuous, lunate, 

 smoky-black ; cilia purplish-white. Body and legs pale purple- 

 brown. 



Very constant in colour and clouding and in the deficiency 

 of markings. 



