38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the end of the discal cell is a rounded, lunate, or irregular 

 white spot, edged with dark brown, and usually having a dark 

 brown centre; above it a smaller white spot also ringed with 

 dark brown ; cilia yellowish-chocolate, darker at the tips, and 

 very faintly scalloped. Hind wings purplish-chocolate, with a 

 paler dash at the base ; nervures slightly dark ; and a very 

 faint transverse darker chocolate shade before the middle, not 

 always visible ; cilia long and dense, yellowish-chocolate. 



Female usually much larger and stouter; antenna short 

 but distinctly toothed, yellowish-brown ; palpi long, pro- 

 tuberant, and like a conspicuous beak, covered, as are the head 

 and thorax, with dense yellowish-drab or brownish-ochreous 

 scales ; abdomen very stout, thickly covered with shorter dull 

 yellowish scales, anal tuft small. Fore wings longer and 

 much larger than in the male; costa more rounded ; apex more 

 pointed ; hind margin more oblique ; pale drab, pale ochreous, 

 rich ochreous, or buff; spots and lines as in the male, but 

 without the marginal clouding of purplish or reddish- 

 chocolate ; nervures reddish, distinct ; and sometimes a slight 

 shading of reddish near the middle of the wing, more 

 especially outside the long, oblique second line ; cilia rather 

 sinuous or faintly scalloped ; yellowish, sometimes tipped 

 with brown. Hind wings jDale drab varying to ochreous, 

 with a distinct, transverse, purplish-brown shade in the 

 middle, and sometimes considerable clouding of the same 

 toward the hind margin ; cilia pale ochreous. 



Underside of the wings of the male dull pale brownish- 

 ochreous, generally shaded with chocolate, with a cloudy 

 chocolate stripe from the apex of the fore wings to the 

 middle of the dorsal margin, and another across the middle 

 of the hind wings; cilia yellowish, dappled in the fore 

 wings, with dark chocolate, and appearing decidedly scalloped ; 

 body and legs reddish chocolate, densely covered with scales. 

 Of the female, pale buff or pale ochreous, with the transverse 

 stripes faintly brown and all the nervures conspicuously 

 brownish ochreous ; body and legs of the same colour. 



