42 LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown clotted with black ; rest of thorax similar, with narrow 

 but conspicuous front crest and small back crest ; fascicles 

 brownish-white ; abdomen light brown, abundantly dusted 

 with blackish-brown ; lateral and anal tufts light brown. 

 Fore wings very broad behind ; costa gently rounded ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin perpendicular but rounded 

 off toward the anal angle ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; 

 colour drab-brown or very pale brown, shaded with brighter 

 brown or reddish, and dusted, to the middle of the wing, 

 with minute blackish dots ; basal line indicated by two deep 

 black spots ; first line slightly oblique, pale brown, edged 

 outwardly by three black-brown spots, the middle one pear- 

 shaped, oblique, and lying in the discal cell before the orbi- 

 cular stigma ; rest of the line faintly edged on both sides with 

 dark brown ; second line, arising from a triangular black 

 spot on the costa, forms a series of indistinct dark brown 

 dashes between the nervures, and is closely followed by a 

 parallel faint brownish line, and this by a row of minute 

 blackish dots ; subterminal line, arising from a black or black- 

 brown costal wedge before the apex, is paler brown, sharply 

 edged within by a broad irregular dark-brown line or stripe, 

 and outside by a faint series of similar clouds ; orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata of the ground colour, dusted like the 

 neighbouring surface, and indicated merely by their pale 

 margins ; the space between them rather narrow, black or 

 brown-black, with a brown extension to the costa, and often a 

 brown shade to the dorsal margin ; nervures slenderly 

 whitish ; extreme hind margin edged with black lunules ; 

 cilia pale brown with two darker intersecting lines. Hind 

 wings broad and much rounded ; dark smoky-brown, rather 

 pale toward the base, but the nervures darker, and with a 

 dark marginal line ; cilia yellowish white. Female quite 

 similar, hind wings hardly darker. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-grey, costa and hind 

 margin dusted with reddish ; a blackish elongated spot indi- 

 cates the reniform stigma, beyond it is a smoky-black trans- 



