i68 LEPWOPTERA, 



crested at the top and back, the tips of the crests and the 

 edges of the shoulder-lappets purple-brown or dusky black ; 

 fascicles small, white ; abdomen whitish-brown, the basal 

 segments sparsely covered with long white scales ; dorsal 

 ridge with two or three conspicuous but very fugitive crests, 

 whitish tipped with dark brown ; lateral and anal tufts pale 

 purplish-brown. Fore wings rather narrow ; costa n.early 

 straight; apex almost pointed but suddenly rounded off; 

 hind margin rather oblique, more so below the middle, where 

 it is bent, otherwise very faintly rounded; dorsal margin 

 straight. Colour ashy-white, much marbled with purplish- 

 brown, blackish, and rosy-grey ; basal line black, forming a 

 small curve from the costa and uniting with a deep black 

 line from the middle of the base, the enclosed space tinged 

 with pale yellow ; first line black, duplicated, not very dis- 

 tinct, placed perpendicularly and formed into three cres- 

 cents ; second line more oblique, black, and formed into three 

 large crescents to the middle, thence to the costa very faint, 

 double throughout, and with the lower portion of the enclosed 

 stripe white ; subterminal line white, sinuous, but in the 

 middle forming a conspicuous W, from the points of which, 

 inwards, run black arrow-heads having around them grey or 

 smoky-black shades ; orbicular stigma large, oval, white, 

 containing a grey cloud and edged with black ; reniform. 

 stigma large, open at the top, otherwise edged with black, 

 pale red with a blackish cloud filling its lower half; clavi- 

 form stigma edged with deep black ; below the orbicular, 

 and placed obliquely, is usually a large space of the pale 

 ground colour, edged beneath with a black line; this pale 

 space or blotch, with the pale orbicular stigma above, and 

 a large similarly pale space at the anal angle, form an 

 oblique pale stripe across the wing, and are in this respect 

 very conspicuous ; on the inner side of this stripe the space 

 to the basal line is occupied by purple-black and smoky-black 

 clouds, which include the claviform stigma ; space between 

 the two upper stigmata black, that outside the oblique stripe 



