136 LEPIDOPTERA. 



two more ; lateral tufts broad, ashy-brown ; anal tufts small, 

 brown. Fore wings somewhat triangular, not very broad, 

 blunt behind ; costa nearly straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin rather rounded, full in the middle, and not very 

 oblique, faintly crenulated ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; 

 colour silvery-grey, broadly banded and clouded with blackish- 

 brown ; first line much curved, red-brown edged with purple- 

 brown and closely followed by a parallel line of deep black 

 upraised scales ; second line gently curved but not indented, 

 pale chocolate, preceded by a parallel line of raised deep 

 black scales most conspicuous on the dorsal region ; the 

 space between the first and second lines forms a broad 

 central purplish-grey-brown band in which are short lines 

 of distinctly raised deep black scales forming the anterior 

 and posterior edges of the spaces which should be orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata, and of a similar space obliquely 

 below the median nervure, in this last case the black ridges 

 being bordered inwardly with white; at the apex of the 

 wing is a small oblique black dash faintly intersected by a 

 whitish commencement of the subterminal line, which other- 

 wise is merely the border of a purplish-brown cloud along 

 the hind margin ; this extreme margin is edged by a sinuous 

 black line, outside which the cilia are loug, pale purplish- 

 brown with a smoky clouding. Hind wings rounded, smoky 

 purplish-brown, rather paler at the base but the nervures 

 dark ; cilia white, clouded with brown. Female quite 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull purple-brown, with four 

 white spots on the costa toward the apex. Hind wings 

 smoky-white with brown nervures to the middle, thence 

 smoky-brown ; central spot dull black ; cilia white clouded 

 with brown. Body and legs very dull brown, front tibias 

 blacker. 



Usually not variable, but a specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has the ground colour, as shown near 

 the base and hinder part of the fore wings, dark steely-grey ; 



