134 LEPIDOPTERA. 



pectinated with long, solid, ciliated teeth of a yellowish- 

 brown ; the shaft whitish ; eyes distinctly hairy but lashes 

 scarcely noticeable ; palpi short, densely tufted, brown, 

 apical joint visible as a small round knob ; head dark brown 

 dusted with white ; collar upraised and densely covered with 

 long scales, mixed brown and white, edged at the back with 

 white and faintly barred in front with black ; shoulder- 

 lappets raised, light brown with a whitish stripe down the 

 middle, and another, longer, at the outer margin ; re- 

 mainder of thorax mixed brown and white, the scales long 

 and loose but forming an irregular indistinct crest or knob 

 toward the back, often hardly perceptible ; fascicles dense, 

 pure white ; basal segments of the abdomen covered with 

 very long white, or brownish-white, scales, among which on 

 the dorsal ridge are three, more or less distinct, dark brown 

 tufts simulating crests ; rest of abdomen obscurely and 

 transversely barred, brown at the base of each segment, 

 whitish at the edge ; lateral and anal tufts large, pale brown 

 dusted with white. Fore wings decidedly broad behind ; 

 costa straight ; apex rounded ; hind margin rather long, 

 gently curved but decidedly bent below the middle ; dorsal 

 margin rather short and nearly straight ; colour rich 

 umbreous ; all the nervures distinctly and conspicuously 

 whitish ; basal line faintly indicated by pairs of small 

 blackish clouds ; first line very obscure, much angulated, 

 bent, and duplicated, forming two series of black-brown 

 cloudy spots or streaks not very close together ; second line 

 also very obscure, consisting of a double or even triple series 

 of blackish cloudy streaks or spots between the pale nervures; 

 subterminal line distinct, slender, yellowish-white, preceded 

 by a row of rather obscure black wedges ; orbicular stigma 

 round, yellowish-white clouded with brown ; reniform stigma 

 large, curved, yellowish-white, clouded with brown, and its 

 lower portion divided by the branching of the whitish 

 median uervure ; both stigmata united above and below with 

 the pale nervures, and having before the orbicular a black 



