328 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus 29. VALERIA. 



Antennae pectinated in both sexes; eyes naked, but 

 provided with long front and back lashes ; thorax stout, 

 scales erect and extremely dense, faintly crested at the top, 

 strongly at the back ; abdomen strongly crested, stout ; fore 

 wings broad, with expanded, crenulated hind margin ; hind 

 wings short, crenulated. 



1. V. oleagina, Fah. — Expanse If inch. Fore wings 

 broad, expanded behind, with very long scalloped cilia; 

 purple-brown, much clouded with green ; reniform stigma 

 large, conspicuously white ; hind wings short, white, bordered 

 with dark smoky-brown. 



Antennae of the male pectinated with rather short, curved, 

 solid teeth, minutely ciliated, light brown ; palpi short, small, 

 purple-brown, almost concealed by long loose scales, the apical 

 joint black, tipped with pinkish-white ; head densely tufted 

 in front, and also at the back of the antennae, purple-brown ; 

 collar upraised, purple-brown, dusted with white and with 

 black, and in its lower portion tinted with green ; remainder 

 of thorax covered with dense masses of raised purple-brown 

 scales and furnished with top and back crests, the latter by 

 far the larger ; the whole dusted wdth green, purple, and black ; 

 fascicles smoky-grey ; abdomen smoky-white, obscured by an 

 abundant dusting of dark smoky-grey ; on the dorsal ridge 

 of each segment but the last is a conspicuous purple-brown 

 crest, those on the second and third being the largest ; lateral 

 tufts hardly percejDtible ; anal tuft small and contracted. 

 Fore wings moderately broad, very so behind ; costa almost 

 straight ; apex rounded ; hind margin very fully rounded 

 and dilated, strongly crenulated or scalloped deeply to just 

 above the anal angle, which is prominent ; dorsal margin very 

 gracefully curved ; colour rich dark purplish-umbreous, much 

 clouded with soft rich green ; basal line limited to two black 

 streaks edged with green ; first line faintly suggested \tx 



