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2. D. sicula, Schiff. ; harpagula, Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 1^ inch. 



Fore wings strongly hooked ; soft, warm, light brown with 

 large orange-brown central clouds, and bluish clouds edged 

 with black before the hind margrin. 



Antennae of the male strongly pectinated nearly to the tip, 

 the remainder filiform ; teeth grey, shaft brown. Head pale 

 greyish-brown tinged above with yellow ; collar also yellow ; 

 remainder of the thorax pale brown, rather smooth ; abdomen 

 short, light brown. Fore wings rather elongated and with a 

 long, curved, hooked tip ; costa a little arched at the base, 

 then very straight for two-thirds of its length, but strongly 

 arched toward the apex ; hind margin deeply hollowed below 

 the tip, then suddenly rounded and curving quite round the 

 anal angle ; dorsal margin very straight. Colour pale yellow- 

 brown, much suffused with glistening purplish scales which 

 give it a soft, warm, hue ; first line indistinct, angulated, 

 yellow-brown ; second line similar in colour, more oblique and 

 much scalloped ; between these is a large irregularly pear- 

 shaped yellow-brown blotch, extending from the subcostal 

 nervure to the subdorsal, and containing in its broad upper 

 portion two large yellowish spots which are cut up by the 

 brown nervures. Outside the two middle scallops of the 

 second line are two crescents formed by parallel lines of black 

 atoms enclosing bluish clouds ; opposite these are two more 

 black crescents edged with blue, placed the opposite way, and 

 beyond these a row of jfive cloudy black crescents ; between 

 which and the hind margin the space is filled by a bluish 

 cloud divided by the nervures ; hind margin, from the apex, 

 edged with a strong black line ; cilia pale brown intersected 

 by a darker line. Hind wings rounded except at the anal 

 angle ; pale golden-brown suffused with glistening silvery- 

 purplish scales except toward the costal margin, where the 

 colour softens to pale yellowish ; nervures browner ; near the 

 base is a curved yellow-brown transverse line, and in the 



