io LEPIDOPTERA. 



white ; abdomen broad, much flattened, pale purplish-brown ; 

 lateral tufts small but placed on a distinct ridge ; anal tuft 

 squared and very flat, dusky pale yellow. Fore wings short, 

 broad and very blunt ; costa gently rounded ; apex very 

 bluntly and squarely angulated ; hind margin below it filled 

 out and rounded, even expanded, slightly crenulated, very 

 oblique toward the anal angle ; dorsal margin slightly rounded ; 

 colour pale purple-brown, with a considerable frosting of white 

 scales which produce an ashy-brown appearance ; basal and 

 first lines both indistinct but duplicated, the pairs widely 

 separated, broken up into obscure purple-red crescents ; 

 second line similarly composed of a double series of very 

 obscure crescents and waved lines ; subterminal line a series 

 of cloudy purple-brown dots, preceded on the costal margin 

 near the apex by a similar triangular spot ; orbicular stigma 

 only indicated by the lower half of a slender red margin ; 

 reniform stigma also visible by its red margin, but open on 

 its upper side, and having its lower portion occupied by three 

 or four red-black dots of different sizes ; cilia pale purple- 

 brown with a rather darker undulating line along the base. 

 Hind wings rather broad ; hind margin a little hollowed 

 below the apex ; smoky-brown with darker nervures ; cilia 

 pale brown tipped with white. Female accurately similar, 

 but with the body a little stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings purplish-drab ; the middle 

 area occupied by a smoky cloud in which is a suggestion of 

 a darker reniform stigma ; beyond this is a smoky transverse 

 line. Hind wings smoky- white dusted along the costal area 

 with purple-brown ; central spot large, lunate, smoky-black ; 

 toward the hind margin is a slender undulating smoky-black 

 transverse line. Body and legs purplish-brown. 



There is a well-known recurrent variety — var. glabra — in 

 which the pale purplish-brown ground colour is replaced by 

 deep glossy rich purple-brown or dark chestnut-brown, but 

 with the stigmata and an incomplete submarginal stripe ashy- 

 brown or ashy-white, and the lines faintly similar. This is 



