294 LEPIDOPTERA. 



crescents ; snbterminal line very faintly paler, edged by a 

 series of cloudy blackish dots placed almost parallel with the 

 hind margin, that on the costa near the apex larger and more 

 conspicuous; orbicular stigma round, brown or blackish, 

 ringed with deep black ; reniform stigma large and con- 

 spicuous, blackish, margined with deep black ; claviform 

 stigma large, blunt, edged with deep black, pale centred, 

 and cutting the first transverse line ; costal margin partly 

 edged with dark lines, hind margin dotted with black ; cilia 

 pale brown. Hind wings pale grey-brown, sometimes 

 darker at the apex and along the hind margin ; nervures 

 brown ; central streak rather long and faintly brownish ; 

 cilia whitish divided by a brown line. Female stouter and 

 usually larger, with simple antenna3 and darker hind wings, 

 otherwise similar. 



Underside of, the fore wings rather shining smoky-brown, 

 with the margins a little paler ; reniform stigma marked by 

 a large smoky-black spot, which is followed by a slender 

 dark brown transverse stripe; nervures paler; hind wings 

 whitish-grey, with the costal region broadly clouded and 

 dusted with brown ; central streak elongated, blackish, 

 followed by a slender grey transverse stripe ; hind margin 

 and cilia tinged with brown. Body dark brown mottled 

 with whitish ; legs brown, barred with white ; leg tufts 

 brownish. 



Variable in the ground colour from very pale brown to 

 ashy-brown, reddish-brown, and smoky black-brown ; far 

 more so in the degree of dusting of black scales, which in 

 some specimens is almost totally absent, in others suffuses 

 the whole costal region or even more or less the entire 

 surface of the fore wings, sometimes forming large blackish 

 clouds, or entirely concealing the brown ground colour ; but in 

 almost every instance one of the stigmata, or more particularly 

 the reniform stigma, is conspicuous. Usually the blackness 

 extends in an equal degree to the thorax, but there are 

 striking exceptions. In a specimen taken by myself on the 



