TRIFID^. 389 



rather short, rounded, brownish- white at the base, shading 

 off to smoky-brown behind, but also dusted with yellowish- 

 white ; nervures dark brown ; central spot large, rather round, 

 smoky-black ; cilia yellowish-white, broadly dashed with 

 brown. Female very similar, hind wings a little longer ; 

 body hardly stouter, but tapering to a point behind, with a 

 very small anal tuft. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown tinged with 

 purple toward the costa ; reniform stigma indicated by a 

 cloudy black spot ; following it is a smoky-black stripe, 

 blackest on the costa ; outside this the nervures are dusted 

 with white, and on the costal margin are three or four yellow- 

 brown dots. Hind wings very pretty, greyish-white abun- 

 dantly dusted with grey-brown, and shaded along the whole 

 costal region with purple ; central spot black ; beyond it is a 

 smoky-black, sinuous, transverse stripe followed by a similar 

 hind-marginal stripe. Body yellowish-brown, dusted with 

 black; legs purplish-brown, but with the tibias black, barred 

 with yellow ; leg tufts and abdominal tufts pale purple-brown. 



A little variable in the depth of the ground colour, more so 

 in the extent and intensity of the red-brown, or dark brown 

 marbling ; this last being in some individuals almost absent 

 from the dorsal margin and from a broad band beyond the 

 second line, while in others it is uniform to the exclusion of 

 central darker clouding. In the collection of Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher is one having a broad pale yellow-brown band before 

 the hind margin. 



On the wing in June and the beginning of July. 



Larva cylindrical, of about uniform moderate stoutness, 

 tapering a very little at each end, head smaller, smooth and 

 lustrous, brown, very dark brown round the mouth ; dorsal 

 plate shining brown, finely divided by a white dorsal line ; skin 

 of the body glossy yet covered with minute wrinkles. The 

 whole colouring consists in lighter and darker tints of reddish- 

 brown inclining to ochreous ; dorsal stripe after the secoi.d 



