172 LEPIDOPTERA. 



also very slightly curved ; colour ricli glossy purple-brown 

 marbled with shades of rich red and grey ; at the base close 

 to the costa is a rather squared yellowish-white blotch, edged 

 below by a black line from the middle of the base ; in this 

 pale blotch are faint indications of the usual basal line ; first 

 line thick, white or pale yellow, edged outwardly with black, 

 and formed into three or four crescents ; second line also 

 thick, white, sharply edged inwardly, in its lower half, with 

 black curved lines, outside with a browner shade ; subterminal 

 line very near the hind margin, sharply white or yellow, 

 slender, curved, and formed in the middle into a conspicuous 

 W, the lower points of which run into the cilia, while the 

 upper are tipped with long black streaks ; orbicular stigma 

 ovate, whitish, clouded with purplish-grey and edged on each 

 side with deep black ; reniform stigma large, open at the top, 

 hardly paler than the ground colour but edged on each side 

 with black and inside this with whitish-grey ; claviform 

 stigma rather long, black edged ; costa clouded with white 

 above the two stigmata ; hind margin edged with purple- 

 black lunules; cilia purple-brown dashed with yellowish- 

 white. Hind wings not very ample, margin sinuous with a 

 rather noticeable hollow below the apex ; grey-brown with a 

 golden gloss, more whitish toward the costa and sometimes 

 having a whitish cloud within the anal angle, nervures 

 faintly darker brown ; cilia white partially clouded with smoky- 

 brown. Female rather stouter, otherwise accurately similar. 

 Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-grey, flushed 

 with purple, and dusted along the costal and hind margins 

 with purple-red ; a paler reddish stripe at the extreme hind 

 margin ; reniform stigma tinged with smoky-black ; just 

 beyond it is the purple-brown commencement of a transverse 

 stripe which is only distinct near the costa. Hind wings 

 pale smoky-grey broadly dusted with red on the anterior 

 half ; central lunule large, dusky black ; beyond it is a sinuous 

 blackish -brown transverse stripe, most distinct on the 

 nervures. 



