388 LKPIDOPTERA. 



shoulder-lappets striped with black-brown, top and back 

 crests small, tipped with the same and with white ; fascicles 

 dusky white ; abdomen dusky pale brown dusted with black ; 

 basal segments abundantly covered with long white hair- 

 scales ; dorsal ridge ornamented with three or more raised 

 crests which are barred with black and tipped with white, 

 lateral and anal tufts spreading, light golden brown. Fore 

 wings rather ovate ; costa regularly curved ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin rather fully rounded and faintly 

 crenulated, but with a small hollow close above the anal 

 angle ; dorsal margin short and nearly straight ; colour pale 

 chestnut-brown, much marbled or mottled with red-brown 

 and black-brown ; from the middle of the base arises a 

 thickened and rather forked deep black streak, and below it 

 on the dorsal margin is another, shorter and straight ; basal 

 line very obscure but double, limited to two pairs of cloudy 

 black streaks near the costa ; first line also obscure, black, 

 double and divided by a pale brown thread, angulated on 

 each nervure and arranged between them in wide curves ; 

 second line black, closely followed by a pale brown line edged 

 with darker, the whole forming two broad curves, and less 

 oblique than is usual ; subterminal line pale brown, waved, 

 formed in the middle into an obscure flat W, and edged 

 outwardly by a purple-brown submarginal cloud which is 

 often cut by black streaks ; orbicular stigma obscure, rather 

 oblique, open above, otherwise slightly margined with black ; 

 reniform stigma more definite, edged with white, and outside 

 this by a fine black margin, but internally pale brown with 

 a dark brown loop ; claviform stigma small, edged with deep 

 black ; round the stigmata, between the first and second lines, 

 is rather more brown clouding than elsewhere, so that in 

 some specimens a darker central band or shade is produced ; 

 all the nervures faintly indicated by short alternate dashes of 

 black and pale grey-brown ; extreme hind margin edged with 

 black lunules ; cilia dark brown with a yellow-brown line 

 along their base, and similar dashes from it. Hind wings 



