200 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and rather full in the middle ; dorsal margin faintly 

 hollowed and gracefully curved ; colour pale brown, abun- 

 dantly dusted and rippled with umbreous or dull black ; 

 basal line abbreviated, forming two curves, pale yellowish- 

 brown, edged on both sides with black ; first line an indistinct 

 aeries of yellowish-brown lunules, edged outwardly with 

 black crescents, inwardly with blackish clouds ; second line 

 also a curved series of yellowish-brown lunules, edged in- 

 wardly with black crescents, outwardly with a cloudy brown 

 line ; subterminal line obscurely pale yellow, broken below 

 the apex, and formed in the middle into a broad W ; space 

 beyond it often darker brown ; orbicular stigma nearly round, 

 very obscure, yellowish brown clouded in the middle with 

 darker brown ; reniform stigma of the ground colour, rather 

 large, slenderly edged with black, and broadly blackened in 

 its lower half ; claviform stigma hardly perceptible ; costa 

 spotted with dull black to the second line, beyond which are 

 three pale yellow dots ; extreme hind margin dotted with black ; 

 cilia brown, broadly dashed with pale yellow. None of these 

 markings are very conspicuous. Hind wings white clouded 

 with brown, nervures also brown ; central spot smoky-brown ; 

 just beyond it is a slender brown transverse stripe, beyond 

 which almost the hinder half of the wing is occupied by a 

 broad ill -defined darker brown band, in which is a whitish 

 cloud near the anal angle ; cilia white. Female extremely similar 

 or sometimes with the fore wings darker and less mottled. 



Underside of the fore wings whitish-grey, white or ashy- 

 grey along the costa and hind margin, reniform stigma 

 marked by a large cloudy black spot, which is closely 

 followed by a transverse smoky-brown stripe ; beyond this 

 is another, more obscure and spread abroad. Hind wings 

 white dusted with brown, central spot black ; beyond it is a 

 curved transverse cloudy brown stripe in which are black 

 streaks on the nervures ; nearer the hind margin is a more 

 cloudy and fainter stripe. Legs dark brown, barred with 

 yellow ; body and leg tufts pale greyish-brown. 



