no LEPIDOPTERA. 



in front with brilliant orange and crimson scales ; eyes black, 

 crusted ; head thickly tufted, rich chocolate-red ; lower 

 portion of the collar light orange-crimson, upper part pale 

 chocolate edged with white ; remainder of thorax tufted with 

 upraised chocolate scales, a very large back crest is tinged 

 with orange-red and tipped with dark chocolate ; fascicles 

 large, pale yellow ; abdomen of the same colour with a tinge 

 of fulvous, the basal segments covered with long downy hair 

 scales ; on the basal and third segments each is a large choco- 

 late-coloured dorsal crest, and a small one on the second ; 

 lateral and anal tufts small, tinged with orange-red. Fore 

 wings pointed and rather broad behind ; costal margin straight 

 or almost hollowed, but a little arched toward the apex, which 

 is angulated ; hind margin immediately beneath it slightly 

 retuse, then fully rounded, also faintly crenulated ; anal angle 

 well marked and slightly produced ; dorsal margin concave 

 and gracefully curved ; colour purple-brown clouded with 

 dark velvety chocolate ; first line oblique, duplicated but 

 obscure, attaining the median nervure, chocolate colour, and 

 forming the inner margin of a very large dark chocolate cloud 

 which occupies the dorsal half of the middle of the wing; 

 second line similar, double, more complete but equally 

 obscure and less oblique, beyond it and running in from the 

 apex is a very oblique dark chocolate cloud faintly traceable 

 to the anal angle, its outer edge waved, rippled, and sug- 

 gesting a faint subterminal line ; upper stigmata scarcely 

 indicated by most obscure chocolate streaks, but below the 

 position of the orbicular is an oblique, somewhat pear-shaped, 

 brilliant golden spot placed very conspicuously in the middle 

 of the wing and surrounded by the deep chocolate area; cilia 

 pale purple-brown. Hind wings rounded, smoky yellow- 

 brown, with browner nervures, and a broad ill-defined smoky 

 brown band before the hind margin ; cilia smoky yellow. 

 Female extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale fulvous or orange-brown ; 

 a large central smoky black cloud over the middle, and a faint 



