192 LEPIDOPTERA. 



largo pale stigmata, and a row of black wedges before the 

 white subterminal line ; hind wings dark brown. 



Antennee of the male simple, very finely ciliated, dark 

 brown : palpi small, densely tufted, light brown ; head and 

 collar greyish-white, the latter with a broad central black or 

 brown bar ; shoulder lappets greyish-white, ornamented with 

 a semicircular black or brown line ; remainder of the thorax 

 pale grey, crested at the top and back, the crests barred 

 with brown ; fascicles smoky-white ; abdomen smoky-brown, 

 much covered from the base with pale hair-scales ; dorsal 

 ridge furnished with four or five obliquely raised purple-brown 

 or dull black crests ; lateral and anal tufts spreading. Fore 

 wings narrow, especially so at the base ; costa very slightly 

 curved ; apex suddenly rounded ; hind margin rounded and 

 oblique ; dorsal margin gracefully curved ; ground colour 

 whitish-grey, usually almost hidden by dark markings ; basal 

 line single, abbreviated, much toothed but nearly straight, 

 deep black ; first line thick, single, deep black, broken into a 

 series of curves ; second line black, divided into a series of 

 crescents, followed by a cloudy brownish line, and in the 

 interval by a row of white streaks or clouds ; subterminal 

 line composed of a series of small yellowish-white clouds, 

 dislocated near the apex, each yellow cloud or spot edged 

 inwardly by a hollowed black spot, those near the middle 

 prolonged into wedges or arrow-heads of a deep black ; 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata large and conspicuous, white 

 softly clouded with grey or brown and margined with black ; 

 claviform, stigma white or brownish-white edged with black, 

 rather conspicuous ; whole space fiom the base of the wing 

 to the first line dusted and clouded \Nith black, especially the 

 outer portion ; from the first to the second line the central 

 space enclosing the pale stigmata foims a black or brownish- 

 black band ; outside the second line is a broad stripe of the 

 whitish ground colour softly shaded with grey or purplish- 

 grey and containing the black wedges ; hind margiliai space 

 similar ; cilia very bioad, grey dash'ed with dusky-white, the 



