384 LEPIDOPTERA. 



latter sometimes like a fan. Fore wings broad and very 

 blunt behind ; costa curved ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind 

 margin below it very perpendicular, obscurely crenulated, 

 curved off to the anal angle ; dorsal margin slightly rounded; 

 colour dark purple-brown or blackish-brown, much marbled 

 or mottled with dull greyish-brown or reddish-brown, the 

 markings all obscure ; a black streak in the middle of the 

 base and another close to the dorsal margin ; basal line only 

 visible as a short pale curve, edged on each side with dark 

 brown ; first line pale grey-brown, edged inwardly with 

 black, and forming a wide crescent-like curve from the 

 median nervure to the dorsal margin, slightly indented in 

 its middle ; second line placed just beyond the middle of the 

 wing, a mere pale shade, hardly indicated, but enclosed 

 between dark brown lines ; subterminal line complete, but 

 very indistinct, dusky white, abundantly waved and indented, 

 and forming a rather flat W in the middle, also edged on 

 each side by black-brown clouds; orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata large, but very obscure, without definite margins ; 

 nervures from the base throughout dusted and dotted with 

 black and white ; on the costal margin beyond the middle 

 are three distinct yellow dots ; extreme hind margin edged 

 with minute black lunules and a faint yellow line ; cilia 

 purple-brown, obscurely dashed with yellow and dusted with 

 black. Hind wings broad, margin rather undulating ; colour 

 pale smoky-brown, with a broad ill-defined smoky-black or 

 black-brown band toward the hind margin ; nervures darker : 

 cilia white, more yellow at the base, and divided by a partial 

 dark line. Female quite similar, except that the body is 

 stouter and the anal tuft smaller. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky grey-brown ; browner 

 along the costal region, more shining white along the dorsal ; 

 nervures dusted with white ; costal margin dotted with the 

 same toward the apex. Hind wings dusky-white, with a 

 yellow gloss ; broadly dusted over the costal portion with 

 purplish -brown ; central spot black ; beyond it is a faint 



