i2o LEPIDOPTERA. 



similar crest, behind which is a thick dusky yellow tuft ; 

 lateral tufts large, purple-red; anal tuft small, red-brown. 

 Fore wings pointed, moderately broad behind ; costa almost 

 straight or faintly concave to near the tip, where it is a little 

 arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin rather oblique, very 

 gently curved, and full at the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 gracefully curved ; colour light purple-red clouded with 

 chocolate ; basal line faintly visible but broken, pale choco- 

 late, followed by a parallel, obscure, similar transverse cloud ; 

 first line very oblique, straight, double and distinct from the 

 dorsal margin to the median nervure, thence obsolete ; second 

 line equally oblique and almost straight, terminating unusually 

 near to the apex of the wing, double, faintly rippled, choco- 

 late ; bounded by these last two lines, and above by the 

 median nervure, is a large conspicuous rhomboid blotch of 

 velvety chocolate, and in its upper area is placed a brilliantly 

 golden Y-mark either complete or divided; subterminal line 

 irregularly angulated, edged on the inside with a broad 

 clouded chocolate band, and having, half-way up the outside, 

 a similar cloud shot with a golden gloss, as is also the con- 

 tiguous portion of the inner band ; along the costa is a 

 succession of faint cloudy chocolate spots, one of which 

 extends itself and forms the extremely faint edging of a 

 hardly perceptible reniform stigma ; extreme hind margin 

 edged with a slender brown line ; cilia pale purple dashed 

 with light brown. Hind wings broad, faintly hollowed 

 below the apex but fairly rounded ; pale smoky-brown 

 shading into a darker smoky cloud along the hind margin, 

 the whole with a slight yellowish gloss ; there is also a 

 smoky-yellowish transverse central stripe, in which more 

 particularly the nervures appear darker brown ; cilia dusky 

 pale yellow, or yellowish-white, dashed with brown. Female 

 extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale golden-fulvous clouded 

 with smoke colour, especially so on the nervures, the reni- 

 form stigma, and two slender transverse stripes. Hind 



