TRIFID^. 107. 



line only indicated by double black streaks on the costa and 

 median nervure, but enclosing a whitisb line ; first line 

 double, nearly perpendicular, black, disposed in rows of 

 crescents, the intermediate line or stripe dusky-white; 

 second line more oblique but bent strongly back toward the 

 costa, double, blackish, but obscure, the contained stripe, 

 which is dusky-white, being far more conspicuous, the 

 duplicate lines merely showing as crescents along its 

 margins; subterminal line obscure, merely an irregular 

 cloudy-white stripe, between which and the second line 

 the broad space is darkened and ornamented with a series 

 of long black ridges or forks; orbicular stigma large, 

 oblique, white, open above and widening until it attains the 

 costal margin, otherwise edged with a black line, reniform 

 stigma large but obscure, edged with white but enclosed by 

 a black marginal line ; claviform stigma merely an indistinct 

 black angulated streak; costa spotted with black; space 

 between the stigmata also dull black, hind margin edged 

 with black lunules; cilia grey, dusted with black. Hind 

 wings ample, dark smoky-brown ; nervures darker brown ; 

 central spot small, blackish; cilia pure white. Female 

 stouter, otherwise quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings rather shining smoky-grey, 

 paler at the margins ; nervures a little blacker ; discal cell 

 occupied by long, mouse-coloured, rather prostrate hairs; 

 reniform stigma visible as a blackish lunule ; outside it is 

 a curved, dusky, transverse stripe. Hind wings whitish-grey, 

 with the nervures darker ; costal region dusted with smoky- 

 brown ; central spot large, lunate, dusky-black, followed by a 

 curved, blackish transverse stripe ; hind margin clouded with 

 dark smoky-grey. 



In freshly emerged specimens, especially those of the 

 typical grey colouring, there is sometimes a beautiful tinge of 

 •faint purplish-red disposed in large clouds in the paler spaces 

 of the fore wings, especially beyond the reniform and clavi- 

 form stigmata. This fades rapidly while the insect is still 



