s 96 LEPID OP TERA . 



margin ; whitish, bordered inwardly with brown, outwardly 

 with deep black ; second line curved, very oblique but bent 

 back outwardly near the dorsal margin, slightly but repeatedly 

 angulated, dusky white edged inside with black ; subterminal 

 line greyish-white, not reaching the apex, formed in the 

 middle into a small blunt W ; orbicular stigma round, white, 

 clouded with brown, and margined slenderly with black ; 

 underneath, and joined to it, is a forked greyish-white angu- 

 lated blotch in the middle of the wing ; reniform stigma 

 whitish, clouded with brown and edged with black ; clavi- 

 form stigma obscure, dark brown edged with black ; space 

 from the base to the first line filled up with grey marbling or 

 clouding ; that between the first and second lines, around the 

 stigmata and oblique white blotch, nearly filled up with black 

 or dark-brown and divided by the whitish-grey nervures ; 

 space between the second and subterminal lines pale brownish- 

 grey, or bluish-grey with brown clouding, the palest colour 

 running into the apex, just before which on the costa is a 

 sharply-edged black-brown blotch ; whole costal margin 

 spotted alternately with dark-brown and greyish-white, 

 except beyond the second line, where are three small white 

 dots in a brown cloud ; hind marginal space dark-brown 

 edged with black dots ; between these are white streaks 

 running out through the dark grey cilia, which are thus so 

 broadly dashed with white as to produce a strongly crenu- 

 lated appearance. Hind wings smoky-brown, with the hind 

 margin very broadly darker-brown, and before this a slender, 

 faint, indented, brown transverse line ; cilia white. Female 

 very similar, hind wings more uniformly dark, body stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings umbreous, shot with a 

 yellowish gloss ; reniform stigma indistinctly dull black ; just 

 beyond it is an angulated transverse dark brown stripe, 

 blacker at the costal margin ; dorsal margin silvery white ; 

 cilia chequered with white as on the upper side. Hind wings 

 whitish-brown dusted with darker ; central streak angulated, 

 blackish j beyond it is a slender, indented and curved trans- 



