96 LEPIDOPTERA. 



almost naked, golden-brown ; palpi short, thickly scaled, 

 upraised, dull purple, apical joint very small ; eyes dull 

 black dotted with velvety black ; head densely covered with 

 erect orange-brown scales, divided by a slight cross-channel 

 below the antennas ; at the base of each of the latter is a 

 small white tuft ; collar rich orange-brown edged with deep 

 sienna-brown ; remainder of thorax dark sienna-brown or 

 purplish-brown, with a very large erect undivided back crest, 

 paler except at the apex ; fascicles yellowish-white ; abdomen 

 dull pale ochreous covered with paler hair-scales, but having 

 upon the back of the basal segment a short but dense mass 

 of raised deep sienna-brown scales, and on the second a 

 tall dense similar crest, while the third has a prostrate tuft 

 tinged with the same colour, and the rest are shaded 

 therewith upon the dorsal ridge, as also is the upper 

 portion of the long anal tuft ; lateral tufts rather thick. 

 Fore wings broad but gracefully pointed ; costa gently 

 curved ; apex angulated and a little produced ; hind 

 margin beneath it faintly hollowed, then filled out and a 

 little expanded ; anal angle produced and rather sharply 

 angulated, and the dorsal margin distinctly concave ; colour 

 rich velvety purple-brown, deepest in the middle, and having 

 in the costal half, beyond the middle, a large brilliantly 

 golden blotch which is twice curved at its inner edge and 

 minutely scalloped at the outer ; basal line widely duplicated 

 but partial and indistinct, hardly visible beyond the costal 

 cell ; first line slender, rather oblique, several times bent ; 

 both deep chocolate ; second line of the same colour, very 

 sinuous and crossing neatly the golden blotch ; subterminal 

 line only perceptible as the irregular undulating inner edge 

 of a paler hind-marginal space ; stigmata not indicated ; cilia 

 faintly crenulated, smooth soft chocolate dappled with paler. 

 Hind wings not large, rounded behind ; pale purplish-brown 

 with a golden gloss, rather paler in the central area; cilia 

 also paler, especially so at the tips. Female accurately 

 similar except that the body is rather stouter. 



