128 LEPIDOPTERA. 



luug, smoky-wbite ; abdomen hairy, grey-brown; lateral and 

 anal tufts reddish. Fore wings rather narrow at the base; 

 costa very straight ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 evenly rounded and oblique ; dorsal margin straight, rather 

 short ; colour deep olive brown or red-brown ; costal and 

 dorsal margins broadly paler; nervures broadly white; the 

 median and its branches especially so, and forming a curious 

 miniature resemblance to an antler (whence the common 

 name of the moth) ; no transverse lines ; orbicular stigma 

 much flattened, dirty white, almost spindle-shaped, lying 

 prostrate in a black blotch in the discal cell ; reniform stigma 

 conspicuous, white, completely joined to the white subdorsal 

 and median nervures ; claviform stigma brownish-white, very 

 long and narrow, almost reaching the base of the wing ; 

 beyond the reniform stigma is a clouding of very pale 

 brown the nervures crossing which are more broadly white ; 

 extreme hind margin edged with a black line ; cilia white 

 shaded with brown, shining and sharply defined. Hind 

 wings rather small, black-brown, except a portion of the 

 middle area near the base which is nearly white ; cilia 

 sharply white. Female considerably larger, with simple 

 antennge, stouter body, longer fore wings^the costa rather 

 more rounded ; otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-brown, the basal 

 and central portions fluffy with long loose yellowish-white 

 scales ; nervures white ; reniform stigma indicated by a 

 round black spot ; hind wings whitish, with the costal and 

 hind marginal regions broadly blackish-brown ; nervures 

 white; central spot small, rounded, black. 



Variable in the ground colour as already stated, from olive- 

 brown to red-brown, and more rarely to very pale olive- 

 brown on the one hand and to rich, dark, chocolate-brown on 

 the other; often also the smaller nervures are obscured by 

 the ground colour in varying degrees, till sometimes the 

 margins, and portions of the larger nervures, are also of the 

 general colour, leaving the "antler" alone pale ; more rarely 



