70 LEPIDOPTERA. 



transverse band, uniting on the costa with a deeper red or 

 purple-red triangle before the apex of the wing ; beyond this 

 band is a very faint yellowish-brown subterminal line, outside 

 which the hind marginal space is usually paler ; costal margin 

 spotted or clouded with reddish ; orbicular stigma large, 

 round, unmargined, yellow-brown or pale yellow ; the space 

 before and beyond it in the discal cell occupied in each case 

 by a conspicuous chocolate-coloured triangular, or rather 

 sf(uared, spot ; reniform stigma less distinct, yellowish-brown, 

 hardly margined except with a red-brown line on the outer 

 edge, and clouded in its lower portion with reddish ; claviform 

 stigma only represented by a black dot ; extreme hind 

 margin edged with minute dark chocolate crescents ; cilia oi 

 the gi'ound colour. Hind wings rounded, except that the 

 margin is hollowed below the apex, rather uniform pale grey- 

 brown, with a faint golden gloss ; base rather paler, nervures 

 brown ; cilia very pale reddish. Female equally variable, 

 stouter, antennse simple, fore wings rather narrower behind ; 

 more inclined to purplish shading or purple-red transverse 

 bands ; hind wings a little darker. 



Underside pale smoky-brown or smoky-reddish, with the 

 costal and hind margins abruptly light red, and the dorsal 

 margin shading to whitish ; hind wings white, dusted with 

 reddish on the nervures, and especially along the costal 

 region ; central spot rather large, reddish-grey, not very 

 distinct. Body greyish-drab with the tufts red ; legs brown ; 

 leg tufts light red. 



Unusually variable in the colour and markings of the 

 fore wings. The description above is from fairly well- 

 marked Southern specimens, selecting those which show the 

 markings, which in the majority of specimens, even here, 

 are less complete. Often the stigmata are obscure, and this 

 occurs more particularly when the lines and the transverse 

 shades or stripes are distinct ; or the latter are obscure or 

 absent, and the yellowish-drab wings are only faintly shaded 

 with reddish or purplish ; or the lines and stigmata are almost 



