112 LEPIDOPTERA 



series of short curves containing a line of pale purple-red ; 

 second line a series of obscure black crescents, some of them 

 running to long points on the nervures, all bordered out- 

 wardly with light purple-red ; subdorsal line irregular, 

 purplish-red, partly formed of narrow crescent-like spots 

 lying in black arrow-head shaped dashes, followed by black 

 streaks ; the broad band between the last named two lines is 

 of a light purple-red, brighter than the remainder of the 

 wing ; orbicular stigma large, oblique, rather ovate ; reniform 

 stigma also large ; both conspicuously light red ; claviform 

 stigma faintly perceptible, smoky-black, lying in a Targe 

 glossy black blotch which occupies the space below the 

 median nervure and between the first and second lines ; 

 hind marginal region dusted with black ; cilia distinctly 

 crenulated, purple -brown, barred and tipped, in regular 

 scallops, with black. Hind wings smoky-brown with a 

 bright golden gloss ; nervures rather darker brown ; along 

 the hind margin is an obscure series of whitish clouds ; cilia 

 scalloped, concolorous, and dashed with white. Female 

 rather larger, with simple antennae; body much stouter; 

 fore wings rather more dull in colour, suffused with a more 

 smoky-purple ; hind wings rather darker. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy pale smoky-grey, 

 paler at the base, broadly pale purple along the hind margin; 

 costa streaked and dusted with the same ; reniform stigma 

 smoky-black, divided by a curved pale line ; beyond it is a 

 faint, transverse, smoky stripe, and half way to the hind 

 margin another; hind wings brownish-white, costal half 

 tinged with purple and dusted with brown ; central spot 

 large, blackish, beyond it is a distinct curved smoky-black 

 transverse stripe. Body and legs purple-brown. 



On the wing in June, July and August. 



Larva. Head, face, and true legs corneous, brown ; spira- 

 cular line dull yellow-green as well as all the parts beneath 

 it, the line itself very dimly marked below by being sKghtly 



