302 LEPIDOPTERA. 



blackish, a large drab blotch round the orbicular stigma; 

 hind wings grey. 



Antennae of the male pectinated with short, pointed, 

 abundantly ciliated teeth which become shorter beyond 

 the middle, and taper off, leaving the apical third threadlike. 

 Palpi tufted, final joint slender, short, pitted at the apex, 

 pale yellowish-brown, barred with dark brown ; head 

 yellowish-brown ; collar similar, very prettily barred with 

 black crescents ; above these very pale brown ; thorax pale 

 brown or whity-brown, with the faintest possible back crest, 

 otherwise the scales are smoother and more prostrate than 

 in most of the allied species ; fascicles whitish ; abdomen 

 very pale bi'own with numerous long whitish scales ; lateral 

 tufts hardly indicated ; anal tuft tipped with yellowish. 

 Fore wings narrow, truncate, with straight costal and dorsal 

 margins; apex blunt, hind margin rather straight and 

 perpendicular, but elbowed below the middle and rounded 

 off a little at the anal angle : colour very pale brown or drab- 

 brown, with a large ill-defined blackish blotch occupying the 

 costal space from the base to the first line, and a smaller 

 similar blotch beyond the middle enclosing the reniform 

 stigma, costa also clouded with brown ; basal line obscure, 

 limited to two black crescents edged with pale brown and 

 situated in the dark cloud ; first line black, much indented, 

 perpendicular to near the dorsal margin, where is a large 

 loop, also duplicated by an inner grey line, the two enclosing 

 a pale slender stripe ; second line much less distinct, but 

 when visible, composed of a series of slender brownish 

 crescents with black dots at their ends ; hind-marginal 

 region softly clouded with dark brown from the apex to 

 near the anal angle, and enclosing a series of pale wedges 

 which represent the subterminal line ; oz^bicular stigma 

 flattened, prostrate, very narrow, with a dark outline, and 

 containing a dark brown streak or diamond-shaped spot; 

 reniform stigma edged with a black line, and containing 



