6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



straight, but bent below the middle ; anal angle full ; dorsal 

 margin very straight ; colour variable, rich yellowish-drab or 

 yellow-browu, olive-brown, greenish-brown, or reddish- 

 chocolate, the latter the least frequent ; in all more or less 

 clouded or banded with a richer, deeper shade of the same 

 colour ; basal line indistinct, abbreviated, faintly brown ; first 

 line very obliquely placed, sloping back from the costa, and 

 slightly curved before reaching the dorsal margin, richly darker 

 brown, and usually forming the outer edge of one of the broad 

 bands of rich colouring ; second line white, tending obliquely 

 outwards from the costa, but elbowed above the middle, and 

 thence straight to the dorsal margin, smooth and even through- 

 out, and usually forming the outer edge of a second broad 

 stripe of richer colour ; subterminal line reddish-white, 

 slightly rippled but almost direct from near the apex to near 

 the anal angle ; space between the last two lines pale, some- 

 times whitish, especially at the costa, where also, touching 

 the subterminal line, is an oblique black wedge-shaped streak, 

 edged inwardly by a cloud of the richer colouring, in which 

 are two small costal whitish dots ; orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata rather large, but each only indicated by a slender 

 whitish margin, and often indistinct ; cilia concolorous but with 

 a yellow line along the base. Hind wings broad and ample, 

 with rather undulating hind margin; rich orange-yellow from 

 the base to near the middle ; remaining portion deep glossy 

 black, forming a very broad regular band, curved within, 

 and narrowing off to the anal angle ; extreme margin and 

 cilia deep yellow. Female accurately similar, indeed difficult 

 to distinguish, the apex of the body being so densely clothed 

 with scales that the structure is scarcely perceptible. 



Uudei'side of the fore wings deep black, except the margins 

 which are rather broadly yellow or orange, or the hind-marginal 

 portion is broadly whitish, with yellow ami olive shadey ; along 

 the nervures which border the discal cell are dense masses of 

 long loose scales ; hind wings similar to the upper side ; body 

 ashy white tinged with yellowibh ; under surface of the lateral 



