366 LEPID OP TERA . 



mixed grey and white, with slender blackish lines, and black 

 spots at the edges ; remainder of thorax grey mixed with 

 white, crested with three pairs of tufts which are barred 

 and tipped with blackish ; fascicles spreading, smoky-white ; 

 abdomen decidedly flattened, dark grey, with an abundant 

 covering of smoky-grey scales, more whitish toward the 

 base ; these long scales are raised on the back into broad 

 tufts, imitating abdominal crests ; lateral and anal tufts small, 

 smoky grey. Fore wings long and narrow ; costa very faintly 

 curved ; dorsal margin straight ; apex rounded ; hind margin 

 also rounded and full but very short, and hardly oblique ; 

 colour a peculiar, almost glaucous, green, dusted with white ; 

 basal line incomplete, consisting of two or three short black 

 curves edged with white ; first line black, perpendicular, but 

 scalloped and undulated and edged inwardly with white ; 

 second line far beyond the middle of the wing, more oblique, 

 black, composed wholly of crescents between nervures, edged 

 outside with two whitish parallel shades ; a white, or 

 greenish-white blotch occupies the apex, and from it arises 

 a slender whitish subterminal line which is bordered inside 

 by a purple stripe, outwardly by small blackish clouds along 

 the hind margin ; costa spotted with black and white ; 

 orbicular stigma large, white, ringed with black and having 

 a purplish central cloud ; reniform stigma also large and 

 white, usually containing two smaller greyish clouds with 

 purplish centres joined by a fine line ; claviform stigma 

 broad, white, faintly edged with black ; extreme hind margin 

 edo-ed with deep black lunules ; cilia white, spotted with 

 purplish-grey. Hind wings broad and ample ; grey-brown, 

 with a golden gloss ; along the hind margin is an irregular 

 whitish stripe which is edged by a dark brown line ; central 

 spot obscure, elongated, blackish ; cilia white. Antennee 

 of the female more strictly threadlike ; otherwise extremely 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale bluish-grey, with a large 

 smoky-grey cloud in the middle \ beyond is an angulated 



