38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with brown, rather flattened, squared and smooth ; a short 

 black bar edged with white lies across the front of the collar ; 

 top crest flatly conical but small ; back crest a mere flattened 

 tuft ; fascicles white ; abdomen rather flattened, greyish- 

 white dusted with brown, dorsal region, near the base, covered 

 with long pale hair-scales in which is sometimes a dark spot 

 not raised into a crest ; lateral tufts small ; anal tuft squared, 

 smoky- white. Fore wings narrow, the costa straight or 

 nearly so ; apex rounded ; hind margin crenulated and gently 

 curved; dorsal margin nearly straight; colour white dusted 

 with grey ; arising from the middle of the base, a conspicuous 

 curved deep black streak is forked at a short distance, and 

 slightly shaded off beyond ; a few pairs of very faint streaks 

 aud angles indicate a broken first line ; second line more com- 

 plete but even more indistinct — a double series of grey curves 

 and crescents throwing off darker dots on the nervures ; sub- 

 terminal line a series of small white dots in a faint stripe of 

 grey clouding ; this at the anal angle is darker and encloses 

 a curious forked white streak ; orbicular stigma only suggested 

 by two faint black streaks which represent its front and back 

 margins ; reniform stigma large, similarly suggested, and 

 also by a curved black basal streak, above which is a small 

 faintly fulvous cloud ; below this an angulated black streak, re- 

 presenting the claviform stigma, is connected at its apex with 

 a short straight black bar by which it is joined to the only 

 black angle of the second line, and thus becomes forked at 

 each end ; this central portion of the wing is faintly clouded 

 with black atoms, a series of oblique black spots ornaments 

 the costal margin, and another of deep black dots the extreme 

 hind margin ; cilia greyish-white. Hind wings moderately 

 broad, with the hind margin very sinuous ; smoky-brown, 

 a little paler at the base, nervures and extreme hind margin 

 rather darker; cilia white clouded with brown. Female 

 closely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings greyish-white, clouded in the 

 middle with smoky -grey ; a smoky-black cloudy spot repre- 



