TRIFW.-E. T5 



yellow-brown ; lateral and anal tufts dull orange. Fore winj^^s 

 "rather broad ; costa gently curved; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin very slightly curved and hardly oblique ; dorsal 

 margin straight; colour drab, yellowish-drab, pale reddish, 

 or drab-brown ; markings very faint ; basal line abbreviated, 

 brownish ; first line a double series of irregular reddish-brown 

 streaks or curves : second line blackish, nearly perpendicular, 

 and very sinuous, followed by a parallel series of blackish 

 dots; subterminal line hardly perceptible, except by its 

 forming the outer edge of a transverse cloudy stripe or series 

 of cloudy, darker spots, which terminates in a triangular 

 reddish-brown costal blotch before the apex : orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata of a rather redder-drab, faintly outlined 

 with whitish ; but all these markings are obscure, and most 

 of them hardly perceptible in many specimens, the darker 

 reniform stigma, and the brown triangle before the apex, 

 being the most reliable ; hind margin dotted with dark brown ; 

 cilia concolorous. Hind wings rather ample, with sinuous 

 hind margin ; yellow, shaded with pale grey along the front 

 margin ; just below this grey shade is a large, ill-defined, dull 

 black, central lunule, and along the hind mai-gin is a rather 

 narrow dull black band, broadest at the apex and gradually 

 narrowing to before the anal angle, where it terminates ; out- 

 side this the extreme edge and ciUa are dull yellow. Sexes 

 quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky- black in the middle ; 

 costal margin and broad apical and hind marginal spaces 

 orange-red ; dorsal margin shining yellow ; discal cell fluffy 

 with abundant long yellow hair-scales ; hind wings as on the 

 upper side, except that the black marginal band is abbreviated 

 toward the apex, and its place occupied by a reddish stripe, 

 which runs all along the costal margin. Body reddish- 

 yellow ; anal tuft still redder; thoracic portion and leg tufts 

 reddish -grey ; legs brown. 



Variation in this species appears to be local rather than 

 climatal and somewhat arbitrary in its distribution. In the 



