TRIP I D.^. 38 r 



shining, costa faintly curved ; apex very bluntl_y angulated ; 

 hind margin rounded and regularly crenulated — almost 

 scalloped; dorsal margin very gracefully curved; colour 

 smooth pale drab-brown, softly tinged with redder brown 

 or even with dark brown, but without conspicuous markings, 

 the most noticeable being a sharply marked slender black 

 streak from the middle of the base ; basal line scarcely 

 perceptible, limited to two pairs of cloudy brown dots ; 

 first line very faint and slender but regularly angulated, 

 black-brown ; second line even more faint, limited to a 

 series of obscure brow^n crescents edged outwardly with 

 paler brown ; nervures outside this dotted with black ; 

 subterminal line an obscure cloudy series of brown curves 

 edging a pale space before the hind margin ; orbicular stigma 

 large, ver}' obscure, paler brown, edged on each side with 

 dusky black ; reniform stigma also large and obscure, pale 

 brown, slenderly edged on each side and below with black, 

 inside which is a whiter line, the lower portion often filled in 

 with a brown cloud ; both open above ; around them the 

 central space between the first and second lines is more 

 tinted with red-brown than the rest of the wing; costa to 

 the reniform stigma dotted with cloudy brown spots, beyond 

 it with three minute white dots which are followed by a 

 sub -apical yellowish-white streak ; cilia smoky-brown with a 

 paler basal line. Hind wings rather broad, margin rounded, 

 glossy pale brown, paler at the base ; nervures darker brown ; 

 cilia yellowish-brown tipped with white. Female extremely 

 similar, but with the fore wings a little paler and the anal 

 tuft much smaller. 



Underside of the fore wings dull brown, abundantly dusted 

 with darker, the nervures whiter, and the dorsal region 

 toward the base brilliant with a pearly golden gloss ; reni- 

 form stigma smoky-black. Hind wings pale brown, more 

 abundantly dusted with dark brown ; central spot small, 

 black ; beyond it is a faint curved brown transverse line ; 

 extreme hind margin clouded with white. Body and legs 



