372 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dappled with greyish-brown ; along the costa are three small 

 oblique cloudy brown-black spots, from each of which arises, 

 at a sudden angle, an oppositely oblique obscure slender 

 brownish transverse line ; outside the third of these is a 

 broad better-defined grey stripe arising at the costa from a 

 larger chocolate spot, and enclosing in its middle portion a 

 considerable chocolate-black spot which is obscurely broken 

 up into several portions ; the concave portion of the hind 

 margin below the apex is sharply edged with chocolate- 

 black, the cilia here being smoky-black ; the remainder 

 dusky-white. Hind wings not broad, decidedly angulated or 

 tailed, the hind margin tendiug outward toward this sharp 

 angle ; greyish-white dusted with purplish-grey ; central 

 spot small and obscure, grey ; across the middle is a broad 

 faint pale purplish-grey band, and another, still fainter, and 

 composed of short rippled lines, occupies the hind-marginal 

 region ; cilia white. Female similar. 



Under side very pretty, fore wings yellowish-white, 

 sprinkled all over with short, fine, transverse, purplish-brown 

 lines and dots ; costa shaded with light brown ; beyond the 

 middle is a broad straight band of dark brown and chocolate- 

 browu, becoming bright chestnut at the costa ; the concavity 

 below the apex is blackened, as on the upper side. Hind 

 wings yellowish-white, dusted with brown ; central spot 

 black. Before it is a slender yellow-brown transverse line, 

 beyond it a broad yellow and chestnut transverse stripe ; 

 hind margin dotted with black ; cilia white. Body and legs 

 pale grey-brown. 



Not very variable, but in the collection of Mr. P. M. Bright 

 is a specimen nearly white, with the markings very pale ; 

 and others with the sub-apical costal spot large and deeper 

 black ; or with a broad slate-coloured band ; of this last form 

 one is exceedingly dark. Mr. Sydney AVebb possesses one 

 almost devoid of the rippled or irrorated grey dusting ; 

 another wholly irrorated with this, but without the dark 

 spots ; and others intermediate between this and the type 



