250 LEPIDOPTERA. 



double, oblique, curved, and consisting wholly of short black 

 crescents ; subterniinal line white, commencing as a broad, 

 tapering, white costal blotch at the apex, narrowed, but still 

 conspicuousfin the "jmiddle, broken below, partially preceded 

 by black ]triangular spots, and at the anal angle again spread 

 and joining a broad white blotch on the dorsal margin, which 

 is thus almost"completely edged with white ; from the middle 

 of the costa a broad, clear white blotch extends to below the 

 middle of the wing, completely absorbing the orbicular 

 stigma, the position of which is only indicated by two slender, 

 peqDendicular black lines ; this white blotch joins another 

 which extends over the reniform stigma, leaving' it also only 

 indicated by black edges before and behind ; costa before and 

 beyond the central blotch spotted with white ; extreme hind 

 margin spotted with black, and very gracefully looped or 

 festooned with white ; cilia greyish-brown, dashed and 

 dotted ^with white. Hind wings rather small and short, 

 smoky-brown, a little paler at the base, but the nervures 

 darker ; on the hinder branch of the median nervure one, or 

 sometimes two, white dots ; cilia smoky-brown, tipped with 

 white. Female quite similar, except that the abdomen is 

 stouter, rather conical, pointed, and devoid of the anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, nervures paler \ 

 the middle area faintly tinged with yellow ; dorsal margin 

 shining, pearly-white, sometimes greenish-white ; reniform 

 stigma indicated by two smoky-black spots ; costa beyond 

 it dotted with white ; cilia distinctly dashed with white. 

 Hind wings white, obscured by an abundant dusting of grey- 

 brown scales ; central spot large, smoky-black, followed by a 

 curved, transverse, dark brown stripe, outside which the 

 marginal region is clouded with smoky brown ; cilia mixed 

 brown and white. Body yellowish-brown ; legs black-brown, 

 the tibige barred with white ; leg tufts brownish white. 



Usually rather constant in colour and markings in any one 

 locality, but subject to wide local or climatal variation. The 

 described form as above is pretty uniformly that found in 



