fi2 LEPIDOPTERA. 



bristles, purplish brown ; palpi deep purple-brown, <ipex light 

 brown ; head and thorax purple-brown, collar a little raised ; 

 a crest at the back of the thorax is faintly perceptible ; fas- 

 cicles short, loose, whitish ; abdomen glistening smoky-grey, 

 lateral and anal tufts bright light purple-red. Fore wings 

 moderately broad, costa gently curved near the base and 

 again beyond the middle ; apex very bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin full, perpendicular below the apex to the middle, 

 then bent and curved off suddenly ; dorsal margin very 

 straight ; colour deep rich purple-brown, rather grej^er 

 toward the dorsal and hind margins ; basal line partial and 

 vei'Y indistinct, reddish-brown or blackish, edged outside with 

 yellowish ; first line very indistinct, often hardly perceptible, 

 consisting when visible of two or three blackish streaks ; 

 second line very faint, curved, not scalloped, but broken 

 below the costa — it is no more than the inner edge of a broad 

 purple transverse stripe, at the outer edge of which is a much 

 indented, faintly yellowish, subterminal line ; orbicular stigma 

 of the ground colour, faintly edged with yellow, and outside 

 this with black ; reniform stigma yellow, clouded with 

 brownish or purplish and usually cut off* below, edged on each 

 side with black, and preceded by a large rhomboid spot of a 

 blackish or deep chocolate colour ; the space on the outer side 

 of the reniform stigma is often of a bright light chocolate ; 

 claviform stigma indicated by a black dot ; costa spotted with 

 yellow and black ; extreme hind margin edged with dark 

 brown lunules ; cilia purple-red. Hind wings shining grey- 

 brown, rather paler at the base ; nervures dark brown ; 

 central lunule long, indistinct, smoky-brown ; cilia purple- 

 red. Female stouter, extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy grey-brown, tinged 

 with bright purple-red along the costa and hind margin, and 

 sometimes brilliantly so at the apex ; beyond the middle is a 

 blackish transverse stripe hardly visible except near the costa ; 

 hind wings whitish dusted with grey-brown, and very broadly 

 with purple-red along the costal region ; central spot large, 



