240 LEPIDOPTERA. 



line white ; the stigmata separate ; hind wings pale grey- 

 brown, darker behind. 



Antennee of the male distinctly ciliated with fine bristles, 

 brown, barred at the back with pale yellow ; palpi dark 

 brown, dusted with white ; head dark umbreous, barred in 

 front and on the to^) with pale yellow, and strongly tufted 

 between the antennee ; collar yellowish-brown, mixed with 

 white and barred with dark brown ; shoulder-lappets light 

 brown, very broadly bordered with white scales, in which is 

 an irregular curved black streak ; rest of thorax covered 

 with similarly mixed long brown and white scales, strongly 

 crested at the top and back, and the crests tipped with 

 white ; fascicles spreading, yellowish-white ; basal segment of 

 the abdomen covered with similar long white scales, the 

 remainder with similar long brownish ones ; a series of dark 

 brown crests adorns the dorsal ridge ; lateral and anal tufts 

 spreading, brown, dusted with black. Fore wings broad 

 behind ; costa nearly straight till near the apex, where it 

 becomes curved, the apex also being rounded; the hind 

 margin forms a full bold curve, slightly crenulated, and hardly 

 oblique ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour umbreous- 

 brown, marbled with black ; basal line black, double, broken 

 into three streaks, and edged with white, below is a black 

 basal cloudy spot close to the dorsal margin ; first line thick, 

 black, broken, but angulated throughout and faintly edged 

 inwardly with white ; second line curved into two large 

 bends and composed of deep black crescents, of which one 

 or two throw off black dashes behind ; this line is followed 

 by a more slender parallel dark brown line, and also faintly 

 or partially edged with white ; subterminal line conspicuously 

 white or yellowish-white, forming a series of rough irregular 

 curves and angles and in the middle a rather flat W ; more 

 or less edged inwardly with black wedges, outwardly with small 

 black cloudy spots ; orbicular and reniform stigmata both 

 elongated and slightly oblique, margined with yellowish- 

 white and outside this slenderly with black, their bases 



