2 LEPIDOPTERA. 



short, lateral tufts spreading, anal tuft small and flat, white. 

 Fore wings retuse, costa arched at the base, and rounded 

 toward the apex, but faintly hollowed in the middle ; apex 

 angulated, almost squared ; hind margin below it straight or 

 slightly retuse, perpendicular, full at the middle, thence a 

 little rounded off, but with full anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 straight to near the base ; colour rich orange-yellow ; ex- 

 treme edge of the middle portion of the costa pure white, 

 and there is a tuft of white scales at the base of the dorsal 

 margin ; basal line slender, often hardly perceptible, curved, 

 leaden-black ; first line faintly indicated by a black dot each 

 on the subdorsal and median nervures, and an angulated 

 streak above ; second line by a regular series of black dots ; 

 before it is a more noticeable, slender central shade, very 

 oblique, forked round the reniform stigma so as to form a 

 long Y, and composed of leaden-black clouding or minute 

 dots ; the spiracular line is a mere thread of similar atoms, 

 rather bent in the middle and scarcely attaining the margins ; 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata obscure and very similar, 

 being mere rounded spots of rather paler orange than the 

 general colour ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings rather small 

 with sinuous hind margin ; white, with a small pinkish cen- 

 tral spot, followed and partly surrounded by an irregular 

 series of pink connected lunules and threads ; cilia white. 

 Female so accurately similar that it is difficult to separate 

 the sexes. 



Underside of the fore wings silky white tinged with orange, 

 and dusted with brown along the costa, apex, and hind 

 margin ; the Y-mark of the upper side faintly visible ; 

 beyond it is a faint partial dotted brown line. Hind wings 

 white, the costal region dusted with orange ; central spot 

 lanate, pink, followed by a slender undulating pink trans- 

 verse line. Body and leg-tufts white tinged with orange ; 

 tibias orange, barred with white. 



Very constant in colour, or only occasionally a little 

 paler, but there is some little variation in the distinctness 



