TRIFID&. 5 



with a black bar across the face below the antennae ; thorax 

 fulvous, the collar edged with dark red and having on each 

 side a black dot ; fascicles dusky- white ; abdomen much 

 flattened, pale ochreous with a dusky-black band across each 

 segment, and on the basal segments long dull yellow hair- 

 scales in which are one or two dorsal orange-red dots 

 imitating crests ; lateral tufts small but continuous ; anal 

 tuft broad and flat, pale ochreous. Fore wings truncate ; 

 costa very faintly arched ; apex squarely angulated ; hind 

 margin perpendicular and straight to below the middle, 

 thence rounded off ; dorsal margin faintly rounded ; colour 

 smooth orange-ochreous or pale orange-red abundantly dotted 

 with black, and dotted and clouded with orange-red, but the 

 normal pattern of markings is thereby confused and rendered 

 obscure or scarcely noticeable ; basal line indicated by pairs 

 of black dots ; first line in the same manner, but toward the 

 dorsal margin these coalesce into two pairs of crescents ; 

 second line indicated by a row of black dots which is toler- 

 ably direct and not very oblique, followed by two more 

 parallel rows ; subterminal line also a row of deep black 

 dots obscured by an edging of red clouds, but two of the dots 

 placed just above the middle are large and conspicuous ; 

 stigmata not very perceptible, mere pale clouds, except that 

 a large and conspicuous black spot is placed in the basal 

 portion of the reniform ; sometimes the orange-red clouding 

 forms a sort of central shade ; extreme hind margin edged 

 with small black lunules ; cilia purplish-ochreous, spotted 

 with reddish-black. Hind wings not large, having a sinuous 

 hind margin ; colour smoky-black ; cilia orange-red. Female 

 quite similar, the anal tuft narrower. 



Underside of forewings dull pale ochreous, the middle area 

 clouded with smoky black, in which is a deep black spot ; 

 some of the nervures are streaked with glossy pink; hind 

 margin dotted with black. Hind wings also dull pale 

 ochreous ; central spot large, lunate, black ; beyond it is a 

 slender orange-red transverse line ; hind margin dusted with 



