58; LEPIDOPTERA. 



edged on the inner side with a purple-red or red and white 

 stripe, which again is edged by a black stripe, shaded off 

 towards the base of the wing ; second transverse line very- 

 long and oblique, black, regularly scalloped between the 

 nervures, edged outwardly by a slender purple-red or reddish- 

 white stripe, and this by a black line which disappears 

 toward the costa ; apex occupied by a large blotch of purple 

 and yellow which partially encloses a large black spot on the 

 costa. Between the first and second lines, lying in, and 

 dividing, a long white blotch, is a large round ocellus or eye- 

 like spot, black, irrorated with blue-black, and enclosing a 

 complete yellowish ring, inside which is a pupil-like streak 

 of silvery-white, and outside it a greyish half ring. Beyond 

 the second transverse stripe, and parallel with the hiud 

 margin, is a white stripe, indented at the inner edge, and 

 sharply defined. Margin pale golden brown, or grey tinged 

 with yellow. Hind wings long and not very broad, apex 

 rounded, hind margin rather straight, yet a little bent in the 

 middle ; anal angle squared and prominent ; dorsal margin 

 rather hollowed, and clothed, as is the base of the wing, with 

 long golden-brown hair-scales. Colour yellowish-orange or 

 orange-brown, with a large central ocellus similar to that 

 upon the fore-wings ; before it is an irregular and much- 

 curved cloudy black-brown transverse line, often indistinct ; 

 beyond the ocellus another line, slender, scalloped, and 

 indented ; outside which is a broad blackish transverse stripe 

 which does not attain the costal margin ; base and dorsal 

 area clouded with blackish- brown ; hind margin shaded with 

 purplish red ; nervures brownish ; cilia of all the wings 

 extremely short, dark brown. 



Female much larger and paler ; antenna3 short, pectinated 

 with short stout teeth, which are not placed on opposite 

 sides of the shaft as in the male; light brown. Collar 

 broadly white ; thorax very stout, covered with long fur-like 

 dark-brown scales ; abdomen extremely stout and broad, 

 dark-brown, with transverse whitish stripes. Wings all 



