TRIFJDA£. 95 



90 full as to project beyond the apex ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight; colour red-brown — paler or darker, — umbreous, grey- 

 brown, drab, blackish-brown, and all intermediate shades; 

 basal line reduced to a short blackish streak close to the base 

 of the costa ; first line indistinct, blackish, hardly oblique, 

 composed of three flattened curves ; second line, when visible, 

 slender, faintly blackish, gently curved, closely followed by a 

 far more distinct line of black dots, which in some examples 

 unite with the line upon the nervures and so form a succession 

 of crescents ; subterminal line indistinct and irregular — 

 a mere series of cloudy yellowish dots, preceded by a more 

 distinct dark brown transverse shade ; on the costa is a black 

 dot, or pail' of dots, at the origin of each line ; orbicular stigma 

 rather small, round or ovate, yellowish when distinct, other- 

 wise of the ground colour, faintly edged with black ; reniform 

 stigma much squared, yellow, or else of the ordinary shape 

 and almost of the ground colour ; the space between these 

 stigmata is darker than the ground colour, and originates a 

 cloudy darker central shade ; cilia concolorous but clouded 

 with more smoky colouring. Hind wings not very ample, 

 rounded behind, white or greyish-white with a bright gloss, 

 the nervures faintly brownish, and often a smoky-brown 

 cloud along the apical and hind margins, which sometimes 

 takes the form of a distinct submarginal band ; cilia white. 

 Female with antennae threadlike, the thorax and fore wings 

 taking similar variations in colour, but the central shade of 

 the fore wings is usually darker, the stigmata more obscure 

 and the reniform seldom squared or filled up with yellow ; 

 hind wings darker, often dark smoky-brown with only the 

 base white, not banded. 



Underside of the fore wings reddish-grey shading to white 

 along the dorsal margin, but suffused with a brilliant golden 

 gloss; cilia very dark; hind wings greyish-white heavily 

 dusted with reddish along the costa, more faintly with smoky- 

 grey along the hind margin ; body dull brown ; legs reddish- 

 brown or dull brown. 



