I90 . LEPIDOPTERA. 



rather broad, having large gaily-coloured spots ; hind wings 

 ample ; vein 5 from the middle of the cross-bar. 



1. T. batis, X. — Expanse, 1^ inch. Fore wings dark 

 olive-brown, with large, rounded, roseate ^spots ; hind wings 

 dull grey. 



Antennas short, slender, curved, faintly ciliated, light 

 brown ; head pale smoky-brown ; collar broad, densely scaled, 

 rather erect, smoky-brown ; remainder of thorax covered with 

 raised pale olive scales, strongly barred or shot with purplish- 

 pink, and expanded at the back into a broad crest, behind 

 which is a tuft of pale reddish or bright pink scales ; abdo- 

 men rather slender, tapering, glossy whitish-grey, with three 

 or four light or dark brown dorsal crests or erected tufts, the 

 third the most conspicuous ; but these are fugitive and only to 

 be seen in perfection in very fine specimens, and in them some- 

 times almost prostrate or concealed by long fascicles of whitish 

 hair-scales, which arise at the back of the thorax ; lateral 

 tufts of the abdomen small ; anal tuft rather long. Fore 

 wings somewhat ovate; costa arched at the base, then gently 

 curved to the apex, which is rather suddenly rounded ; hind 

 margin gently rounded ; dorsal margin tolerably straight ; 

 colour very opaque, dark olive-brown or blackish-olive, with 

 large, rounded, sharply defined, bright pinkish spots, (like 

 peach petals, whence its common name of the " peach- 

 blossom "). Of these spots one, occupying the basal area, is 

 pinkish-white, and contains delicate fulvous clouds and dots ; 

 one, equally large, is at the anal angle, bright pink, with an 

 olive-fnlvous central cloud ; a very small one beyond it on 

 the hind margin ; two of full size and of a lovely pink on the 

 costal margin toward the apex ; and an elongated blotch 

 along the middle of the dorsal margin, pinkish, with a long 

 fulvous cloud ; cilia dark olive-brown, with a paler line at 

 the base, and before it, along the hind margin, a series of 

 faint pale crescents. Hind wings ample, rounded, but with 



