370 LEPIDOP TERA . 



wings mucli elongated, narrow at the base, broader behind ; 

 reddish-brown or greyish-brown ; hind wings shining pearly 

 white, with dark brown nervnres. 



Antennte of the male simple, ciliated, dark brown ; palpi 

 small, strongly tufted, brown ; head purplish -bi'own ; collar 

 rather raised, pale brown with two cross-bars of purplish- 

 brown, the lower very slender ; shoulder-lappets long and 

 large, pale brown edged with darker brown ; remainder of 

 the thorax brown dusted with whitish, with a long divided 

 and tufted crest from the collar to the back of the thorax ; 

 fascicles grey, long and dense, hiding the base of the 

 abdomen ; the latter is pale brown, covered with long loose 

 shining grey scales ; lateral and anal tufts brown. Fore 

 wings long, rather narrow at the base ; costal margin 

 straight to near the apex, where it is gently curved ; apex 

 rather suddenly and bluntly rounded, almost angulated ; 

 hind margin very oblique, slightly rounded ; dorsal mai'gin 

 nearly straight ; colour pale brown or red-brown, thickly 

 dusted below the subcostal nervure with dark brown and 

 reddish, so that a broad stripe of the paler ground colour lies 

 along the costal margin ; basal line almost limited to two 

 black costal dots ; first line double, indistinct, reddish-brown, 

 broken into rough crescents and placed nearly perpendicu- 

 larly ; second line only indicated by a faint curved series of 

 cloudy brown dots ; subterminal line pale brown, edged 

 inwardly with reddish-brown clouds, outwardly by a long 

 smoky-brown cloud which occupies the hind-marginal space ; 

 orbicular stigma large, rather ovate, often pale brown partially 

 margined with red-brown, but also often only indicated by 

 the red-brown edging; reniform stigma obscure, slenderly 

 edged with dark brown or red-brown, and usually almost 

 filled up with smoky-grey or blackish, the lower portion 

 especially with a blackish cloud ; claviform stigma, when 

 visible, of the ground colour, slenderly edged with a dark 

 brown line, and divided down the middle by a still more 

 sleudel" one ; costal margin dotted with black, and beyond 



