176 LEPIDOPTERA. 



the scales long, not erect, except a tuft which forms a distinct 

 crest at the back ; abdomen moderately stout, yellowish- 

 brown with a more yellowish anal tuft and row of tufts down 

 the sides. Fore wings rather narrow, slightly ovate ; costa 

 faintly curved ; apex blunt ; hind margin gently rounded ; 

 dorsal margin very gracefully curved ; no prominent tuft, 

 though this seems to be suggested by rather rough black scales 

 along the extreme edge. Colour light purple-brown, more 

 brown at the base ; first transverse line black, rather perpen- 

 dicular, but much angulated ; second line scalloped obliquely 

 above the dorsal margin, but from the middle of the wing 

 passing as a straight black bar almost to the costa, and dupli- 

 cated ; between the first and second lines and partially in the 

 discal cell, are two singular-looking, large, whitish, constricted, 

 ovate spots, edged with black, and centred with pairs of grey 

 clouds, giving them the appearance of two rough white 

 figures of 8 connected obliquely together ; beyond the outer 

 of these the whitish colour is continued to the costa past the 

 second line ; outside this line is a transverse band of brownish 

 clouds ; hind margin pale purplish, slenderly edged with 

 dark brown scallops; cilia brownish, dashed with darker. 

 Hind wings whitish with grey nervures, a faint grey trans- 

 verse cloud and a greyish central streak ; at the anal angle 

 is a wedge-shaped black streak passing through the cilia, and 

 by it a curved black line ; cilia white with brownish clouds. 

 Antenna of the female simple ; costa of fore wings more 

 rounded ; anal tuft dense, and smoky black ; otherwise 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-grey, with pale 

 clouds toward the costa ; hind wings whitish, abundantly 

 dusted with dark grey, and with a blackish lunule and 

 central transverse stripe ; cilia edged and spotted with dark 

 grey ; female rather darker. 



Usually not variable, but in the collection of Mr. S. Stevens 

 are two specimens having a dark central band, and devoid of 

 the two constricted 8 spots ; and Dr. R. Freer has an example, 



