348 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and not very oblique, bending oflE below the middle ; colour 

 rather glossy soft golden -brown, or reddish -brown, or pale 

 brown ; in the middle of the base is a black streak ; basal 

 line sometimes faintly indicated as a couple of pale dots 

 edged with blackish ; first line rather direct, oblique, sloping 

 outward toward the dorsal margin, composed of black 

 crescents edged inwardly with paler brown ; second line 

 oblique in the opposite direction, blackish, hardly visible 

 above the reniform stigma ; subterminal line very faintly 

 paler brown, edged inwardly by a row of long black 

 wedges, outwardly by a darker submarginal brown cloud ; a 

 pale brown stripe lies along the whole subcostal region to 

 near the apex, before which is a triangular brown costal spot, 

 and on the remainder of the extreme costal edge are a few 

 black dashes ; orbicular and reniform stigmata pale brown, 

 bordered with yellowish-brown, and outside this edged with 

 black ; before and between them the discal cell is Occupied 

 by rather squared black-brown blotches; claviform stigma 

 small, edged with black ; extreme hind margin edged with 

 minute black luuules ; cilia pale brown. Hind wings white, 

 nervures light brown rather than grey ; dorsal and hind 

 margins tinged with light brown, and the latter edged with 

 darker brown ; cilia white, with a yellowish line at the 

 base. Female more robust, fore wings broader and rather 

 more truncate ; antenute simple ; abdomen decidedly stouter, 

 with a very short dull brown anal tuft ; otherwise similar — 

 the hind wings usually hardly darker. 



Underside of the fore wings dull pale brownish, or yellowish- 

 brown, whiter toward the base and dorsal margin, or often 

 with the shining white portion extending into the middle of 

 the wing ; discal cell filled with abundant long oblique hairs ; 

 reniform stigma faintly grey, sometimes followed by a whitish 

 dash. Hind wings whitish, dusted with brown along the 

 costal region and hind margin, and with a slender commence- 

 ment of a brown transverse stripe beyond the middle of the 

 costa ; central spot small, brown. 



