378 LEPIDOPTERA. 



yellowish-tawny band and a chocolate costal spot. Hind 

 wings brownish-white, shaded with grey, and similarly 

 banded. 



Antennae of the male distinctly notched, ciliated, light 

 brown ; palpi small, and with the head, dull reddish-brown, 

 as also are the collar and a raised ridge on the neck ; thorax 

 slate-grey, smooth, except the loosely raised shoulder-tufts ; 

 abdomen smooth, whitish-grey, with small lateral and anal 

 tufts. Fore wings rather pointed ; costa slightly but regularly 

 arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin below it very 

 slightly retuse and decidedly oblique, rounded off at the anal 

 angle quite to the dorsal margin, which is also a little 

 rounded ; colour light slate-grey minutely dappled with very 

 pale grey ; three black-brown spots on the costa give rise to 

 slender black-brown transverse lines, which are rather 

 accentuated on the nervures ; immediately following the 

 third is a broad complete stripe of light cloudy chocolate, 

 widened at the costa, where its anterior portion is orange- 

 yellow, and the hinder portion is formed into a red-brown 

 crescent ; beyond this to the apex the costa is narrowly dark 

 chestnut, barred by two pale yellow streaks ; extreme hind 

 margin faintly dotted with black ; cilia glossy grey. Hind 

 wings moderately broad ; hind margin rounded, except a 

 somewhat blunt angle, which cannot be called a tail, near 

 the middle; colour paler slate-grey, similarly dappled ; central 

 spot black ; before it is a faint, slender, and very straight 

 transverse reddish-black line, beyond it another, more 

 sinuous, which is closely followed by a broad obscure pale 

 tawny transverse stripe, edged again outside by another dark 

 line ; cilia pale slate-grey. Female similar, sometimes a little 

 paler. 



Underside pale grey dusted with yellow-brown ; each wing 

 has a central black dot preceded by one, and traces of 

 another, slender, transverse, reddish-grey stripe, and followed 

 by a third, which is merely the inner margin of a broad 

 yellow band which shades off toward the apex of the wing to 



