244 LEPIDOPTERA. 



across the face with white ; collar pale umbreous, with a broad 

 bar of white, edged with black, very near the base ; thorax 

 golden-brown, beautifully ornamented with black and white 

 on the shoulder-lappets, and the top and back crests tipped 

 with the same ; fascicles yellowish-white ; abdomen yellow- 

 brown, covered toward the base with long yellower scales ; 

 on the dorsal ridge are three or four small dark brown 

 crests ; lateral tufts very conspicuous, anal tuft thick and 

 spreading, both yellow-brown. Fore wings not very broad 

 behind ; costa nearly straight ; apex rather acutely rounded ; 

 hind margin rather oblique, gently curved, very slightly 

 crenulated ; dorsal margin straight ; colour rich purple- 

 brown, almost violet-brown, marbled with black ; at the 

 base is a bright white blotch, divided and edged with curved 

 black streaks, which form a broken, double, partial basal line ; 

 first line repeatedly angulated and formed into long crescents, 

 deep black, faintly edged inwardly with white ; second line 

 oblique, curved, black, forming a series of crescents, and 

 minutely edged outside with white ; subterminal line white, 

 broken up into a series of curves and angles, which are edged 

 inwardly with deep black clouds ; orbicular stigma large, 

 white, centred with brown, edged in front and behind by 

 black lines, but joined above to a white blotch on the costa, 

 and below to an angulated large clear white spot in the 

 centre of the wing ; reniform stigma of the ground colour, 

 slenderly edged with black, and inside this, partially with 

 white, which joins a small white costal spot ; claviform stigma 

 indicated by a black curved streak, which adjoins the back 

 of the central white blotch ; costa beyond the stigmata dotted 

 with white ; extreme hind margin dotted on the nervures 

 with black, these dots joined by slender white lines, from 

 which white dashes run out to the tips of the purple-brown 

 cilia, which thus appear looped. Hind wings very pale grey- 

 brown at the base, shading to dark smoky-brown toward the 

 hind margin, the whole with a golden gloss ; nervures dark 

 brown, as also is a slender central crescent ; in the dark 



