TRIFID^. 163 



very regularly curved, apex bluntly angulated; hind margin 

 fully rounded and regularly crenulated ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; colour snowy-white or greyish-white, dusted with 

 grey -brown, and abundantly rippled with black cross lines ; 

 basal line distinctly double, black, much angulated, and 

 bending in to the base ; first line black, broadly duplicated, 

 repeatedly angulated and scalloped ; second line broadly 

 double, blackish, but less distinct and hardly complete, its 

 outer parallel consists of a series of crescents, the points 

 of which run out in black dots on the nervures ; subterminal 

 line black, deeply indented so as to form long points between 

 the nervures ; these points are thickened with black clouding 

 above the middle, and there is a large black spot just above 

 the anal angle ; orbicular stigma large, white, centred and 

 bordered on each side with black ; reniform stigma very 

 large, extending quite outside the discal cell, white, sharply 

 edged before and behind with black and containing narrow 

 grey clouds ; claviform stigma also large, pale grey, sharply 

 edged with black ; the space between the two upper stigmata 

 is clouded with grey, and cut by a black line arising on the 

 costa, much angulated and proceeding more faintly across the 

 middle of the wing ; costal and hind margins spotted with 

 black ; cilia white, dotted with black and slightly scalloped 

 or crenulated. Hind wings broad, with the hind margin 

 rounded but slightly sinuous ; greyish-white with the nervures 

 greyish-brown, and a broad ill-defined grey-brown band 

 along the hind margin ; before this is a very faint parallel 

 dark line; central spot obscure, grey-brown; cilia white. 

 Female stouter, with the fore wings longer and more pointed, 

 otherwise very similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-grey with a yellowish 

 gloss, and the nervures browner ; costal margin dusky white, 

 interrupted beyond the middle by a smoky-black bar which 

 proceeds as a less distinct stripe, followed by another, paler, 

 across the wing ; within the hind margin is a sharply defined 

 whitish cloud, and at the extreme edge a row of black spots. 



