146 LEFIDOPTERA. 



ings ; lirincipal nervures and upper stigmata, white ; hind 

 wings white with grey-brown central lunule and shading. 



Antennse of the male pectinated with very slender, solid, 

 ciliated teeth, light brown, shaft whitish ; palpi short, broadly 

 tufted, but the apical joints projecting like tiny nipples, dark 

 brown, mixed with white ; head similar, with a strong tuft 

 of scales between the antenna3 ; collar broad, whitish, tinged 

 at the base with yellow, and twice faintly barred with 

 purplish-browQ ; shoulder lappets dark brown dotted with 

 black, and shaded and edged with white ; remainder of 

 thorax dirty white, clouded with grey-brown, crested at 

 the back, the tips of the tufts being dark brown ; fascicles 

 spreading, white ; basal segments of the abdomen covered 

 with similar long white scales, remainder greyish-white ; 

 dorsal ridge ornamented with three, or sometimes four, slender 

 crests, the third rather long and curled, all, however, are 

 very fugitive ; lateral and anal tufts spreading, smoky- 

 white. Fore wings broad, especially so behind ; costa some- 

 what curved ; apex rounded ; hind margin long, rather 

 straight to the middle, then bent and again fairly straight 

 to the anal angle, but not with an angular effect ; slightly 

 crenulated or dentate throughout ; dorsal margin straight 

 to near the base ; colour white, faintly tinged with brown 

 and clouded with pale grey ; basal line broken into black 

 streaks between the nervures, and followed at a short distance 

 by a similar series, less distinct ; first line deep black, broken 

 at each nervure, fairly direct yet forming a crescent at the 

 dorsal margin ; second line less distinct, duplicated, broken 

 at every nervure and forming crescents between them, also 

 enclosing a white line, the portion from the costa to the 

 middle indistinctly black, the remainder deep black ; sub- 

 terminal line only indicated by a broken row of attendant 

 black wedges pointing inward ; orbicular stigma round, white, 

 clouded with browu. and edged with black ; reniform stigma 

 very large, white, edged with black and containing blackish 

 lines parallel to its front and hind margins ; claviform stigma 



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