46 LEPTDOPTERA. 



merges into a whitish-brown stripe along the costa ; reniform 

 stigma very indistinct, edged on each side with yellowish and 

 with a black fine line, but not defined below or a])ove ; clavi- 

 form stigma yellowish, slenderly edged on the upper side with 

 black; from the reniform stigma a slender brownish central 

 shade passes to the dorsal margin ; cilia concolorous. Hind 

 wings very ample, apex much rounded, below it a very slight 

 hollow ; colour grey-brown, darkest along the hind margin, 

 with a golden gloss ; nervures darker ; cilia whitish. Female 

 similar. 



In this and some allied species the stigmata become scarcely 

 noticeable, being obscured by the sharply defined and con- 

 spicuous dark spots in the intervals of the discal cell. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky blackish in the middle, 

 shading off to light purplish-red along the costal and hind 

 margins and the apex, and to whitish along the dorsal 

 margin ; beyond the middle is a distinct slender blackish 

 transverse stripe ; hind wings whitish, broadly shaded with 

 light purplish-red toward the costa, and dusted all over with 

 smoky-brown atoms ; central spot small, lunate, blackish ; 

 beyond it is a slender curved smoky-black transverse stripe ; 

 body and leg-tufts bright purple-red ; legs purple-brown. 



Usually very constant in colour and markings, but there is 

 a little variation in the degree of reddish shading, which 

 sometimes is almost absent or replaced by smoky-brown ; 

 the dark markings in the discal cell also vary from light 

 chocolate colour to deep black. In the collection of Mr. A. J. 

 Hodges is a fine female specimen, in which the first and second 

 lines are unusually black and the former rather broad and 

 shaded into the central space, which is altogether clouded with 

 blackish. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva. Head small, retractile ; body obese, cylindrical, 

 attenuated in front from the sixth segment, the second being 

 manifestly narrower than the rest ; twelfth segment a little 



