284 LEPIDOPTERA. 



darker, and having at the back a very insignificant crest. 

 Fascicles very long, broad and converging, smoky-white ; 

 abdomen smoky-brown, with long paler scales; lateral and 

 anal tufts similar, small. Fore wings long and narrow, 

 costal and dorsal margins very straight, apex blunt, hind 

 margin rounded, rather full or almost bluntly angulated in 

 the middle ; colour pale brown with a faint reddish gloss ; 

 clouded along the costal region with smoky-black ; extreme 

 costal edge usually marked with five or six yellow dots ; 

 basal line very indistinct, blackish, edged faintly with yellow- 

 ish ; first line perpendicular, duplicated, blackish, looped and 

 repeatedly angulated ; second line far beyond the middle of 

 the wing and nearly perpendicular, formed of an almost 

 straight double row of small blackish lunules followed by a 

 row of minute black dots ; between the first and second 

 lines, but nearer the latter, is a cloudy, blackish, transverse 

 shade of varying width, often slender, sometimes broad and 

 throwing a dark clouding back toward the base ; orbicular 

 stigma round or ovate, or with a projection outward, small, 

 edged with black and centred with grey ; reniform stigma 

 also edged with black and containing a dark cloud edged 

 inwardly with black ; space between these two stigmata 

 usually blackened ; from the outerside of the reniform 

 stigma a deep black, wedge-shaped streak points toward the 

 hind margin ; claviform stigma small, obscure, edged with 

 blackish; subterminal line, when visible, yellowish-brown, 

 very deeply zigzagged, especially in the middle, where it 

 throws off short black streaks pointing inward, two of these 

 forming deep black wedges exactly facing the black streak 

 from the reniform stigma ; often, however, the pale subter- 

 minal line is broken into spots, though the black streaks are 

 still present ; hind margin clouded with dark brown and 

 edged with slender black lunules ; cilia light brown clouded 

 with darker. Hind wings very ample and rather elongated ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; margin beneath it slightly hollowed, 

 then fully rounded ; pearly white, edged with greyish-brown, 



