82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



oblique, faintly curved and indented, purple-brown edged 

 with whitish ; second line rather oblique but broadly curved 

 back to the costa, purple-brown edged with whitish, but 

 completely composed of scallops with rather long points on 

 the nervures ; at the origin of each of these lines, on the 

 costa, is a blackish spot, and beyond these four yellow costal 

 dots ; subterminal line hardly perceptible but parallel with 

 the second line, and defined by an internal edging of purple- 

 grey clouds which usually form a band darker than the 

 remainder of the wing ; orbicular stigma narrowly ovate and 

 oblique, purplish, obscurely edged with chocolate except 

 toward the costa, where it unites with a broad faintly paler 

 sub-costal stripe ; reniform stigma hardly perceptible, clouded 

 with white and edged faintly with brown ; no clavif orm 

 stigma ; space in the discal cell before the orbicular, occupied 

 by a wedge-shaped chocolate or purple-brown spot ; between 

 the bases of the orbicular and reniform is a short straight 

 dark purple-brown streak or dash ; these two markings being 

 the most distinct on the wing ; space from the subterminal 

 line to the hind margin dusted with pinkish-grey or purple- 

 brown, forming a faint cloudy band along the margin ; cilia 

 purple-brown. Hind wings rather long and ample, white 

 dusted with pinkish-grey, especially along the hind margin, 

 where is a faint greyish cloudy band ; central spot smoky- 

 grey ; cilia dirty white clouded with grey. 



Antenna of the female simple ; fore wings scarcely so 

 broad, rather frosted with hoary-grey ; hind wings hardly so 

 long as in the male, central spot more distinct ; otherwise 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings very glossy, pale brownish- 

 pink, tinged in the middle with smoky-brown, and having a 

 faint indication of a darker transverse band beyond ; hind 

 wings shining white, nervures and costal margin dusted with 

 pink ; body and legs dull reddish. 



Slightly variable in the intensity of the ground colour and 

 in the consequent distinctness of the markings. A specimen 



