290 LEPIDOP TERA . 



is indicated by two dark brown cloudy spots ; first line 

 obscurely smoky-black, rather perpendicular and repeatedly 

 angulated ; second line black-brown, oblique, but curved 

 back strongly to the costa, forming a series of obscure cres- 

 cents, outside which is a faint stripe of pale ground colour ; 

 subterminal line an irregular row of obscure yellowish cloudy 

 spots edged inwardly by a jagged dark brown shade ; orbi- 

 cular stigma, when perceptible, very small, circular, dusky- 

 yellow ; reniform stigma also small, often invisible, only 

 indicated as a dusky-yellow blotch, sometimes centred with 

 brown ; on the costa beyond the middle are three or four dull 

 yellow dots ; cilia olive-brown, regularly dashed with dusky- 

 yellow. Hind wings rather short, rounded, thick in texture 

 from the coarseness of the dense scales, very pale yellowish 

 brown, dusted all over with dark brown : beyond the middle 

 is an obscure, transverse, smoky stripe, and outside this 

 another still more obscure ; hind margin faintly edged with 

 darker brown ; cilia pale yellowish-grey. Female larger and 

 stouter, sometimes considerably so. Antennee threadlike ; 

 the fore and hind wings in some instances much darker, and 

 the markings usually more definite ; otherwise quite similar. 

 Underside of the fore wings Jight brown dusted with 

 darker and having a smoky tinge ; beyond the middle is a 

 distinct slender black -brown transverse stripe ; on the costa 

 beyond the middle are three faint yellow dots separated by 

 dashes of smoky-black. Hind wings also pale brown, 

 abundantly dusted with dark brown and having a narrow 

 transverse black-brown stripe beyond the middle ; cilia of all 

 the wings yellow-brown. Body yellow-brown, tinged with 

 red-brown ; leg-tufts olive-brown, legs more umbreous, rather 

 short, densely clothed with scales, the front tibias faintly 

 barred with dull yellow. 



Variation in this species is almost confined to paler and 

 darker shades of colouring and to the greater or less indis- 

 tinctness of the markings as already indicated ; and it 

 moreover appears to be local or climatal, since the tendency 



