344 LEPIDOPTERA. 



to mere small points or knobs of scales ; fascicles yellowish- 

 white ; abdomen smoky yellowish-brown, more or less covered 

 with long smoky-brown scales which lie rather close ; on the 

 basal and sometimes on the second segment is a small oblique 

 crest barred with black-brown ; lateral tufts spreading and 

 placed on a rather full ridge ; anal tuft broad, smoky-grey in 

 the middle, light reddish-brown at the sides. Fore wings 

 rather broad and blunt, extremely smooth and shining ; 

 costal margin faintly curved, apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin below it hai'dly oblique, fully rounded, minutely 

 crenulated, and rather hollowed just above the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour smoky-umbreous or 

 blackish-brown ; markings very obscure, often hardly per- 

 ceptible ; basal line scarcely indicated ; first line incomplete, 

 nearly perpendicular, broken at the nervures into several 

 obscure black curves ; second line not very oblique, forming 

 a curved series of faint black crescents divided by the 

 nervures, which here are sometimes streaked with black, and 

 pass through a rather paler narrow stripe which borders the 

 second line ; subterminal line slender, undulating, whitish- 

 grey, formed in the middle into a short blunt W, and 

 bordered inwardly by wedge-shaped black streaks and clouds, 

 outwardly by small dusky clouds ; orbicular stigma oval, 

 indicated by a faint edging of black ; reniform stigma 

 pale grey-brown, dotted on the outside, or sometimes all 

 round, with dusky white, and edged with black, or in more 

 obscure specimens imperfectly margined and with the dots 

 hardly visible ; claviform stigma very short and small, a 

 mere black curve attached to the first line ; toward the apex 

 the costal region is usually somewhat darkened and bears on 

 its extreme edge three white dots ; extreme hind margin 

 sharply edged with black lunules or triangles, and outside 

 these by a pale yellow line at the base of the cilia, which are 

 shining smoky-brown, dashed with paler. In our most 

 frequent form these markings are barely perceptible. Hind 

 wings smoky- white, with a yellow gloss, shading darker to a 



