3IO LEPIDOPTERA. 



and covered from the base with long dusky scales, among 

 which is a very small dusky-black crest on the back of the 

 basal segment ; lateral and anal tufts spreading, rather glossy. 

 Fore wings narrow ; costal and dorsal margins extremely 

 straight ; apex rounded ; hind margin faintly crenulated, 

 gently curved, but having a small hollow just above the anal 

 angle ; colour dark greenish-brown with more or less purple 

 clouding; basal line black, rounded, indented and broken, 

 but enclosing a pinkish-grey blotch ; first line very obscure, 

 oblique, faintly duplicated, dusky black, terminating in a 

 black spot on each margin ; second line scarcely perceptible, 

 except as one or two black streaks toward the dorsal margin, 

 and as a pale edging to the central area, which is clouded 

 with black ; subterminal line dusky-white, undulating and 

 indented, edged on the outside by obscure black clouding ; 

 orbicular stigma a very faint blackish-grey or pinkish-grey 

 loop in a large oblique pinkish-white or greyish- white cloud, 

 which extends as far as the black streaks of the second line 

 near the dorsal margin, and is edged on both sides with cloudy 

 black ; beyond it in the same direction is a rounded or ovate 

 similar cloud before the anal angle ; reniform stigma hardly 

 perceptible, but shaded with pinkish-grey and green-grey 

 and enclosing a paler line ; claviform stigma a blacker streak 

 in the black clouding ; costal margin spotted with black, 

 dorsal margin less distinctly with black and white ; hind 

 margin edged by a row of minute deep black lunules or 

 triangles, each bordered behind with pale grey or pale green ; 

 cilia dull greenish-grey, dashed with darker. Hind wings 

 rather short, rounded and with the margin faintly crenulated. 

 but slightly hollowed before the anal angle ; dusky-white at 

 the base shading into dark smoky-grey behind, but with an 

 irregular and sometimes broken narrow white cloud lying 

 along the hind margin ; central spots obscurely dusky-grey, 

 as also are the nervures ; cilia dusky-white, intersected by a 

 smoky-black line. Female similar, but with a rather stouter 

 body, and antennae quite sim23le. 



