248 LEPIDOPTERA. 



segments white ; lateral tufts small, pale grey ; anal tuft long, 

 depressed, almost divided, pale brownish-grey, blackened 

 in the middle. Fore wings of moderate length, broad and 

 ample ; costa strongly arched throughout ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin not very oblique, but gently curved 

 and strongly crenulated ; dorsal margin very gracefully 

 curved ; colour pale grey or whitish-grey, broadly and 

 abundantly rippled and dusted with blue-grey and black, 

 and a little with golden-brown ; basal line incomplete, 

 formed into two black curves which enclose a black blotch ; 

 first line double, the two stripes not parallel but much 

 angulated, dusky-black dusted with golden-brown and en- 

 closing whitish spaces ; second line also double, more parallel, 

 excessively angulated and indented, the inner portion black, 

 the outer similar, except the middle portion, which is golden- 

 brown, and the intermediate space white ; subterminal line 

 dull black, sprinkled all over with a dotting of smoky-brown, 

 angulated and throwing off short points throughout; no 

 orbicular stigma ; reniform stigma black centred and edged 

 with grey, and outside with a partial black margin ; imme- 

 diately beneath is a large creamy-white spot edged with 

 black, like an additional stigma ; outside this and extending 

 across the wing is a broad central band of dusting of black 

 and golden-brown, all the transverse lines being broadly or 

 narrowly clouded on each side with similar dusting ; along 

 the hind margin is a row of black crescents, that which is 

 nearest the anal angle uniting with the subterminal line ; 

 beyond these is a faintly double blackish marginal line undu- 

 lating beautifully into every crenulation ; cilia greyiwli-white. 

 Hind wings broad, rounded, and very strongly crenulated 

 behind, smoky-black in two broad bands, divided by a pale 

 blue or slate-blue broad central space, which fades to white 

 at the costa ; along the hind margin the hinder black band 

 is invaded by a cloudy-white stripe, the outer poi'tion of 

 which is, with the cilia, bright white faintly dashed with 

 brown streaks, and there is along the extreme margin a 



