86 WHITE- W HAIE8TEEAK. 



Underneath, their general colour is a fine rich ash brown, with a 

 white line nearly across them, and then fainter, turning inwards. The 

 hind wings have also a slender white line across them beyond the 

 middle, thinner still towards the lower side, where it bends in a zigzag 

 shape, forming the letter W. A row of small black crescents, slightly 

 edged on the inside with white, runs nearly parallel to the outer margin 

 of these wings, and is succeeded by a fulvous band extending from tlie 

 inner lower corner, about half-way towards the outer angle, when it 

 becomes gradually obliterated; on its outside this band is marked with 

 black semicircular spots, succeeded by a faint silvery line, the black 

 spots nearest to the lower corner being the largest; the lower corner 

 itself is black, with a silvery dot. The tails are black, tipped with 

 white; the antennre are ringed very prettily with white, the tips red; 

 the legs, whitish, ringed with brown. 



The female has the white streak on the fore wings rather broader 

 than in the male, as also rather more waved, and they are without the 

 spot on the middle of these wings; the tails to the hind wings are a 

 little longer than in the male. 



The caterpillar is pale yellowish green, covered with short downy 

 hairs, with the two rows of small dots down the middle of the back, 

 which is indented, and paler oblique marks or lines on the sides; the 

 hinder segments are spotted with dark red. 



The figures are from specimens in my own collection. 



