28o LEPIDOPTERA. 



edges of the transverse lines are also usually pale, that of the 

 first line more especially so, as also is the interior of the 

 orbicular stigma and the inner edge of the reniform stigma ; 

 hind wings grey-brown, sometimes more whitish toward the 

 base, but with grey nervures. 



Under side of the fore wings glossy pale grey, the whole 

 surface of the discal cell covered with long soft hairlike scales ; 

 reniform stigma black, followed by a curved dark grey trans- 

 verse stripe and a parallel whitish stripe ; nervures whitish ; 

 cilia whitish, tipped with grey. Hind wings white, with a 

 large grey central spot, beyond it a curved transverse row of 

 grey streaks, and at the apex a grey cloud ; margin streaked 

 with black ; cilia white. Body dark brown, tufted with 

 whitish scales ; leg tufts large, brownish white ; legs very 

 bristly, dark brown, barred with white. 



Rather variable. In the male the ground colour is some- 

 times whitish drab, and in such specimens all the markings 

 are occasionally obscured and indistinct, so that the fore 

 wings are nearly unicolorous, but in other cases the stigmata 

 are all strongly marked, while the other markings are almost 

 obliterated. Olive-brown specimens are sometimes as ob- 

 scurely or as sharply marked, and frequently the black spot 

 between the two upper stigmata is obliterated. The more 

 reddish forms are commonly well marked, showing the lines, 

 stigmata, and hind marginal wedges to great perfection, and 

 frequently these specimens are of slightly larger size. In the 

 female the range of variation in colour is quite as great ; 

 these are occasionally of a pale drab, but more often dark red- 

 brown or deep olive-brown, sometimes clouded with blackish, 

 especially toward the middle of the dorsal margin, in others 

 richly clouded with reddish, while the pale oblique stripe 

 comes out most conspicuously ; the stigmata are large and 

 very dark, in a deep brown stripe, and the hind marginal 

 wedges and clouds very sharply defined. Sometimes a dark 

 cloud along the costa unites with the upper stigma, in other 

 cases the subcostal region is conspicuously pale. The thorax 



