TRIFIDsE. 99 



golden-brown ; palpi short, moderately tufted, curved 

 upwards, tawny ; eyes black crusted with brown ; head 

 densely tufted with erect orange-red scales; collar orange- 

 brown shaded and edged with darker brown ; remainder of 

 the front portion of the thorax, to the top of the very tall 

 squared back crest, dull orange-brown ; hinder portion and 

 the edge of the crest dull brown frosted with ashy-grey 

 dots ; abdomen pale purplish-brown, the basal segments 

 covered with fluffy whitish hair-scales, and having on the 

 dorsal ridge three large erect chocolate-brown crests frosted 

 with white ; beyond these are one or two more prostrate 

 tufts ; lateral tufts small, the anal narrow. Fore wings 

 broad, rather pointed; costa very faintly curved from the 

 base, more so near the tip ; apex sharply augulated ; hind 

 margin hollowed in the faintest degree below it, then full 

 and nearly perpendicular, but rounded off toward the anal 

 angle ; dorsal margin rather straight but rounded in toward 

 the base ; colour dull brown with a tinge of reddish, but 

 the surface mainly occupied by two broad, burnished, golden 

 or golden-green bands, one in the basal half of the wing, 

 broad in the middle, narrow toward both wing-margins ; the 

 other placed beyond the middle and so broad as to occupy 

 the whole hinder area except a narrow hind-marginal stripe. 

 In many individuals these two golden bands are united by 

 a similar streak or bar, which is often narrow but sometimes 

 quite broad, crossing the central stripe of ground-colour > 

 lines all extremely obscure, the basal as a slender curved 

 chocolate thread, while the first and second appear in each 

 case as a short velvety chocolate and gold streak, springing 

 from the dorsal margin, and continued as an equally faint 

 slender thread ; subterminal line merely a shade of shot 

 colour in the golden band, spreading near the anal angle 

 into a squared similar spot ; upper stigmata both indicated 

 by slender chocolate marginal lines, but supplemented, beneath 

 the median nervure, by a similar loop-like spot only visible 

 under a lens; cilia frosted purple-brown. Hind wings broad, 



