4 LEPIDOPTERA. 



deeply concave before the anal angle. Hind wings short, 

 rounded, except that the hind margin is hollowed before the 

 anal angle. 



Fore wings pale grey brown, with a rosy or purplish 

 bloom ; near the base is a rather indistinct, angulated, 

 indented, greyish-brown transverse line, shaded outwards ; 

 beyond it an oblique brown stripe ai'ises on the costal margin, 

 passes below the middle of the wing, and turns towards the 

 anal angle, spreading into a broad central brownish cloud, 

 from which undulating parallel olive-brown lines are thrown 

 back towards the costal margin so as to enclose a large 

 triangular space, in which, at the end of the discal cell, is a 

 rather lunate whitish spot, edged with brown ; on the middle 

 of the dorsal margin is a large semicircular brown blotch 

 which reaches almost to the central cloud ; beyond the un- 

 dulating olive-brown lines is a rather obscure, complete, 

 transverse, brown double line, parallel with the hind margin, 

 touching in the middle a dark-brown triangular spot or 

 blotch ; hind margin mainly occupied by a broad brown 

 cloud, which is sharply terminated above by a pale line from 

 the apex of the wing. Hind wings bright rosy red, shading 

 into paler towards the hind margin, and having a broad 

 straight stripe of greyish brown, waved with paler brown, 

 along the costal margin ; near the anal angle is a large pale 

 blue spot or ocellus, centred with a blackish cloud, and 

 surrounded by a broad black ring which throws off a black 

 cloud to the anal angle. Cilia of all the wings very short, 

 darker brown. 



Female similar, larger and stouter, often more richly 

 coloured, and having, in place of the pectinations of the male, 

 a pair of bristles on each joint of the anteunge. 



Underside of the fore wings brilliant rose-red from the base 

 to beyond the middle, thence pale purplish-grey or brownish- 

 grey, with the costa pale brown, the hind margin clouded 

 with dark brown, a chestnut patch towards the anal angle, 

 and three or four waved transverse brown lines outside the 



