3IO LEPIDOPTERA. 



composed of arches and sharp angles ; in the middle of the 

 wing before the second line is a cloudy black transverse line 

 or stripe, similarly angulated, and touching, or sometimes in- 

 cluding, a large lunule at the end of the discal cell ; a black 

 spot lies in this cell close to the first line ; cilia white, spotted 

 with black. Hind wings moderately broad, not long, rounded, 

 but with the margin straighter towards the anal angle ; very 

 pale grey dusted with whitish, and with a narrow, gracefully 

 curved, darker grey border much indented on its inner side, 

 and preceded by a whitish ill-defined band ; cilia white with 

 large black spots. 



Antennas of the female black, with short solid pectinations ; 

 thorax stout : abdomen also stout, but tapering behind to a 

 point, which is finished off by a long protruded ovipositor- 

 sheath. Fore wings decidedly longer than in the male, but not 

 broader in proportion ; ground colour often slightly creamy ; 

 black markings more loose and irregular ; otherwise similar. 



Underside very handsome, the fore wings having a black 

 stripe along the base of the costa, which is thence broadly 

 yellowish with two interrupting black spots or blotches ; 

 middle portion dark grey, broken into bands by cross- 

 bars of yellowish grey, and shading o£E to whitish along 

 the dorsal margin ; hind wings whitish faintly tinged with 

 brown ; two blackish lines from the costal margin merge into 

 transverse curved stripes which nearly cross the wings, and a 

 third lies along the hind margin ; cilia all white with large 

 black spots ; under part of thorax brownish white ; of abdomen 

 pinkish with a row of alternate black and crimson spots 

 down each side ; legs black barred with white. 



Variation in this species is confined mainly to the central 

 cloudy angulated stripe or line of the fore wings, which some- 

 times is nearly or quite suppressed, at others is thickened, 

 spread, and intensified in different degrees, forming a broad 

 black blotch on the dorsal margin, and a series of thick cofi- 

 nected blotches or bars extending across the wing, or in some 

 cases it spreads so as to fill much of the space between the 



