I20 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with yellow ; rest of thorax lighter brown, distinctly crested 

 at the top and back, the back tufts barred with black ; whole 

 thorax densely and roughly covered with long raised scales ; 

 fascicles very small, grey-brown ; basal portion of abdomen 

 densely covered with long smoky-brown or smoky-white 

 hair-scales which merge on the dorsal ridge into a series of 

 obscure dark brown tufts or slight crests ; rest of abdomen 

 shining grey-brown ; lateral tufts similar, small ; anal tuft 

 large, light reddish-brown. Fore wings stout ; costa nearly 

 straight, apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin rather oblique, 

 gently curved ; dorsal margin straight ; colour black-brown ; 

 basal line abbreviated to two short black curves close to the 

 costa and edged outwardly with yellowish or dirty white ; 

 first line rather oblique, much angulated and indented, 

 yellow, edged on each side with black ; second line very 

 oblique, pale yellow divided into a series of short curves by 

 the nervures, .which here are black, but just beyond are 

 dashed with white ; subterminal line yellow or white, very 

 irregular and undulating, edged inwardly with short black 

 crescents or open wedges ; orbicular stigma rather obscure, 

 oblique, ovate, whitish or yellowish, almost occupied by a 

 darker cloud, darkest in the middle ; reniform stigma very 

 large, its outer edge usually sharply defined with yellowish- 

 white, otherwise much clouded and obscured with blackish- 

 brown ; claviform stigma merely an obscure black dash, 

 often imperceptible ; on the costal margin beyond the second 

 line are* three small but sharply defined yellow or white 

 dots ; hind margin edged with black lunules ; cilia blackish- 

 brown with a yellow basal line. Hind wings pale greyish- 

 brown, much darker toward the hind margin ; nervures and 

 a small central spot also perceptibly darker ; cilia white 

 with a yellow basal line. Female very similar but with the 

 body stouter. 



Underside of fore wings glistening yellowish-grey ; discal 

 cell fully occupied by long smoky-brown prostrate hairs ; 

 reniform stigma and a partial transverse line beyond it 



