92 - LEPIDOPTERA. 



dark cloudy band ; cilia whitish tinged with yellowish-purple. 

 Female with threadlike antennae, hind wings more uniformly 

 smoky grey-brown, otherwise very accurately similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black, shading into 

 purple on the costa and hind marginal region ; beyond the 

 middle are two blackish transverse stripes, the outer indis- 

 tinct; hind wings white, broadly dusted along the costal 

 region with light purplish-pink, along the hind margin with 

 the same and also blackish in small clouds ; before this is a 

 slender blackish transverse undulating line ; body and legs 

 reddish-brown, tufts brighter red. 



But very slightly variable — the transverse lines are some- 

 times less distinct, and occasionally the central shade is 

 obsolete. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Lakva moderately stout and cylindrical though tapering a 

 little in front, the head being smallest, the last segment also 

 sloping down on the back from the twelfth, and tapering a 

 little to the extremity. Head very shining, pale brownish, 

 freckled with darker brown and streaked with brown on the 

 front of each lobe ; skin generally smooth and rather velvety, 

 though a little shining on the back of the second segment ; 

 dorsal line whitish-ochreous, edged with a dark brown line on 

 each side, it is not quite a simple line, but commencing broad 

 on the front of each segment, soon narrows, expands again 

 just at the middle, again contracts, and widens again at the 

 end ; the subdorsal line is of uniform thickness throughout its 

 course, whitish-ochreous, edged on its lower side by a fine 

 dark brown line, and on its upper side by a wider brown 

 stripe bearing a black dash, sometimes rather of a wedge- 

 shape, on the anterior half of each segment ; the ground 

 colour of the back between these lines is ochreous or brownish, 

 marked with fine, longitudinal, dark brown wavy streaks 

 which are variously disposed in their aggregation, sometimes 

 suffusing the ground colour in a narrow diamond form, in 



