1 24 LEPIDOP TERA . 



wings dark purple-brown clouded with yellow and rust-red ; 

 a prominent tuft of purple-brown scales ; hind wings brown 

 or grey. 



Antennae of the male rather short, pectinated with mode- 

 rately long, solid, ciliated teeth ; becoming very short and 

 broad toward the tip ; light brown. Head golden-brown ; 

 thorax robust, densely covered with long recumbent scales, 

 reddish-brown ; shoulder-lappets purple- brown ; abdomen 

 stout, dull grey-brown, sometimes faintly banded with 

 reddish-brown, tufted at the tail and down the sides. Fore 

 wings elongated, rather narrow, broader beyond the middle ; 

 costa nearly straight, or even a little hollowed in the middle, 

 convex toward the apex, which is very suddenly rounded, 

 almost pointed ; hind margin oblique, regularly curved, the 

 curve passing smoothly round to the dorsal margin, on which, 

 just before the middle, is a loose triangular tuft, or prominent, 

 of projecting purple-brown scales. Colour dull purple-brown; 

 basal area clouded with rust-red, and having a large yellow 

 spot toward the costa divided by the median nervure ; first 

 transverse line perpendicular, regularly indented and rippled, 

 whitish and yellowish, edged with red ; second line slightly 

 curved and oblique, regularly scalloped between the nervures, 

 whitish at the costa, becoming more yellowish, brightly so 

 near the dorsal margin, edged inside throughout with dark 

 brown ; at the anal angle is a large rust-red spot joined to 

 the extremity of the yellow second line, and from it a row of 

 red crescents parallel with the hind margin and bending 

 inward at the apex ; hind margin edged with a dark brown 

 line ; at the end of the discal cell is a perpendicular, long, rust- 

 red streak in a yellowish edging ; cilia brown, darkest at the 

 nervures, tipped between them with white. Hind wings pale 

 brownish-grey, with a faint, whitish, transverse, cloudy stripe 

 beyond the middle, outside which the ground colour is darker; 

 cilia whitish. 



Female rather larger ; antennse slightly toothed and abund- 



