DELTOIDES. 5*3 



Antennae of the male simple, slender, minutely ciliated, 

 brown ; palpi moderately long, straight, and porrected, tufted 

 with long scales, but flattened at the sides, black-brown ; 

 legs normal, but the tibiaB thickly covered with black-brown 

 scales ; eyes naked, deep black, and provided with long black 

 curled lashes at the back ; head very rough, with hair-scales 

 erect and also pointing forward from the palpi, dark brown ; 

 thorax similar in colour and in roughness, but the collar 

 blackened, and the scales at the back gathered into a thick 

 black tuft ; abdomen mouse-colour, each segment with a 

 whitish edging, and the first three ornamented each with a 

 short, thick black-tipped crest ; anal tuft narrow. Fore 

 wings trigonate, very broad behind ; costa faintly arched at 

 the base and towards the apex, but flattened or even hollowed 

 between; apex squarely angulated; hind margin below it 

 straight, rounded off from the middle and decidedly crenu- 

 lated ; dorsal margin rather full, and having a small angu- 

 lated raised tuft or ridge near the base ; ground colour pale 

 grey-brown, but the greater portion of the wing is occupied 

 by a large velvety brown-black blotch which extends from the 

 base to the second line, occupying the costa, and reaching 

 across three-fourths of the breadth of the wing, being very 

 sharply defined, and outwardly rather angulated ; no trace of 

 the basal or first line, but along the dorsal region from the 

 base is a stripe of more golden-brown than the ground colour, 

 separated from the black blotch by a fine white line ; second 

 line black, edged outwardly by a slender white line, and 

 followed at a short distance by a series of white rings and 

 crescents in which are placed black or dark brown dots ; this 

 evidently represents a subterminal line ; from it, opposite to 

 the angle of the great blotch, arises a thick clouded black 

 streak which runs obliquely into the apex of the wing; 

 orbicular stigma just visible as a deeper black dot ; reniform 

 as a similar crescent ; cilia crenulated, smoky-brown dappled 

 with darker. Hind wings broad and fully rounded, smoky- 

 brown ; central spot a small obscure black crescent ; hind 



