TRIFID.E. 295 



small clouds ; faiut orange-yellovr clouds at the base, the 

 edges of the stigmata, and on the subterminal line ; first 

 and second lines black, jagoed, united on the dorsal margin ; 

 hind wings Avhite, banded and clouded with smoky-grey. 



Antenna? of the male simple, thickly but very minutely 

 ciliated, light brown ; palpi short, narrowly tufted, smoky- 

 grey, the apical joint minute, rather darker ; head pale grey, 

 tufted, more especially so above the bases of the antennae ; 

 thorax broad, densely clothed with long scales, whitish-grey 

 dusted with darker, smooth, the back crest only being indi- 

 cated by a drawing together of the scales into obscure knobs ; 

 fascicles white ; abdomen greyish-white, the dorsal ridge 

 surmounted by two or three very small oblique tufts or 

 crests, barred with black, tipped with white, and placed 

 only on the middle abdominal segments ; lateral tufts 

 spreading, dirty white ; anal tuft broad and dense, greyish- 

 white with a warm tint of brown at the sides. Fore wings 

 rather broad behind ; costa very slightly curved ; apex 

 rounded ; hind margin oblique, rounded and distinctly 

 crenulated ; dorsal margin slightly curved ; colour white, 

 dusted and clouded with grey : basal line limited to two 

 small black streaks broadly edged outside with white : first 

 line oblique, broken up into a series of black spots and 

 streaks, all clouded with a grey dusting and broadly bordered 

 inwardly with white ; second line slender, black, very oblique, 

 forming a series of crescents having at the point of junction 

 on each nervure a black dot edged with white ; the crescent 

 in this line which lies nearest to the dorsal margin coalesces 

 with a long angle of the first line ; subterminal line a rather 

 obscure series of white, or orange-coloured, curved or trian- 

 gular spots edged inwardly with cloudy dark grey arrow- 

 head spots or blotches, and followed by a grey spot in the 

 hollow of each curve; orbicular stigma obscure, somewhat 

 squared, white, centred with grey ; reuiform stigma even 

 more obscurely white, clouded with grey ; claviform stigma 

 represented by a large grey-black loop ; central space around 



