36o LEPWOPTERA. 



slightly crenulated, not very oblique, but rouuded off more 

 toward the anal angle ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour 

 dull ochreous-brown or yellow-fulvous, without definite mark- 

 ings ; no indication of the basal and first lines except in 

 unusually well-marked specimens, when the former is seen 

 to consist of two faint reddish loops, and the latter of a series 

 of extremely faint reddish-brown angles between the large 

 nervures ; second line generally perceptible though usually 

 not attaining either margin, a series of faint red-brown 

 crescents with their points running out upon the nervures 

 and there tipped with darker dots ; subterminal line only 

 faintly visible under a lens as a rather paler series of V-like 

 angles ; outside this is a cloudy triangle of red-brown or 

 purplish-brown above the middle, and another, smaller, close 

 to the anal angle ; in the centre of the wing is an oblique and 

 broadly angulated chocolate-brown transverse cloud, often 

 appearing more like two large cloudy blotches ; on either side 

 of it is sometimes a paler indication of the upper stigmata, 

 both oval and flattened but hardly outlined ; costal margin 

 much clouded with pale chocolate streaks, and having toward 

 the apex three or four pale yellow dots ; cilia purple-brown, 

 dashed at each crenulation with darker. Hind wings smoky- 

 white, abundantly dusted beyond the middle with ochreous- 

 brown ; nervures darker brown ; central spot large, elongated, 

 smoky-black, followed in the middle of the wings by a slender, 

 smoky-brown, transverse shade, in which the nervures are 

 rusty-brown ; cilia crenulated, concolorous, but tipped with 

 white. Female rather paler in the ground colour and 

 with the markings slightly more noticeable, otherwise 

 similar. 



Underside of fore wings light purple-red, brighter toward 

 the apex and hind margin; dorsal region pearly yellowish- 

 white ; nervures paler. Hind wings yellowish-white, with 

 the whole costal and apical region broadly dusted with 

 purple-red ; central spot small, dusky black ; beyond it is 

 the faintest possible indication of a pale red transverse line. 



