42 LEP1D0PTERA. 



lateral tufts spreading, tinged with purple ; anal tuft flattened 

 and rather squared. Fore wings somewhat short ; costal 

 margin nearly straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 oblique, much rounded, and faintly crenulated ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight; colour greyish-white or purplish -white, much 

 clouded and dusted with black; basal line suggested by a 

 black dot on the costa ; below the median nervure arises, 

 from the base, a black streak which almost joins the first 

 line ; the latter is black, edged inside with white, irregular, 

 looped, and angulated ; second line black, repeatedly angu- 

 lated toward the dorsal margin, only faintly indicated above ; 

 between these two lines the space between and below the 

 stigmata is more intensely dusted with black than elsewhere, 

 especially a longitudinal broad bar under the stigmata, which 

 often is quite black or definitely edged with black; orbicular 

 stigma flattened as to its usual position, but in some sort 

 doubled by an extension below the median nervure, linking it 

 with the reniform, which also is large ; both are clouded with 

 grey and edged with black ; there is no indication of a sub- 

 terminal line, but along the hind margin is placed a conspic- 

 uous row of black dots or spots, wedge-shaped except at the 

 anal angle, where two larger ones coalesce and extend inward 

 so as to join the longitudinal blackened bar ; cilia of the 

 ground colour very prettily spotted with dark grey, the paler 

 colour running out to the tip of each crenulation. Hind 

 wings rather short, evenly rounded ; pale smoky purplish- 

 brown ; costal margin pearly greenish-white ; cilia dusky- 

 white. Female very similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-grey, whiter and dusted 

 with dark grey along the costa and hind margin ; dorsal 

 margin pearly-green ; on the costa beyond the middle is a 

 short black bar. Hind wings dusky-white, dusted with brown 

 along the costa and with grey behind ; central spot lunate, 

 black ; beyond it is a slender dotted black transverse line. 

 Body and leg-tufts grey dusted with black; tibiae black, 

 barred with white. 



