138 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the portions on the dorsal ridge darker brown, rather raised, 

 and simulating dorsal crests ; remainder of abdomen pale 

 purplish-brown with large lateral and abdominal tufts. Fore 

 wings rather broad behind ; costa faintly arched at the base 

 thence very straight or even almost hollowed ; apex much 

 rounded ; hind margin also rounded, but elbowed below the 

 middle and broadly curved off round the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin straight to near the base, where is a tuft of whitish 

 scales ; colour very deep umbreous or black brown, rather 

 glossy ; nervures blacker but not distinctly so ; basal line 

 only indicated by two small faintly-brownish clouds ; first 

 line black, much indented, edged on the inner side with pale 

 brown ; second line not very oblique, wholly composed of 

 small black crescents faintly edged on the outside with pale 

 brown ; subterminal line decidedly more visible, slender, 

 waved, and much indented, white or pale yellow, edged 

 internally by a row of small cloudy-black crescents ; orbicular 

 stigma faintly yellowish, surrounded by a slender black 

 marginal line, and nearly filled up with a dark brown cloud ; 

 reniform stigma large, wide in its lower portion and with 

 recurved margins, the inner margin yellowish-white, edged 

 with black, the outer whiter and more distinct than any 

 other marking on the wing ; claviform stigma very obscure, 

 edged with black ; extreme hind margin bordered with 

 black lunules ; cilia dark brown with a faint pale brown line 

 at their base. Hind wings broad, very fully rounded, softly 

 white, with a transverse row of fine brown dashes on nervures 

 beyond the middle, and a faint grey-brown marginal cloud 

 beyond, darkest at the apex j cilia white, clouded with grey- 

 brown. 



Female with simple antennae, decidedly stouter abdomen, 

 rather longer fore wings, sometimes also of a browner colour, 

 hind wings much clouded with grey-brown, sometimes wholly 

 so ; otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy, smoky-brown, with a 

 faint, narrow, blackish transverse stripe beyond the middle 



