44 



Male and female, 44-52 mm. Head orange, palpi fuscous 

 above, white beneath. Antennae ochreous, club and base 

 blackish. Legs ochreous-fuscous. Tliorax and abdomen fus- 

 cous. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight, termen 

 sinuate above and below middle; light ochreous, more or less 

 infuscated ; markings in male dull whitish, in female whitish, 

 semi-hyaline, margined with dark fuscous ; a large, somewhat 

 quadrate spot at posterior end of cell, in female surmounted 

 by a patch of yellowish on costa ; a second, similar, beneath 

 and beyond, surmounted by a smaller quadrate spot which 

 touches both first and second spots, and enclosing a triangular 

 spot of fuscous ; in male the 3 spots are separate, in female the 

 second quadrate spot is followed beneath by 2 smaller spots, 

 lowest very small ; an oblique transverse series of 3 sub-costal 

 spots at three-fourths from base, placed on darker ground 

 color, lower smallest; cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings with 

 temien somewhat angulated in middle ; color as in forewings ; 

 a rounded semi-hyaline whitish spot before middle ; a dark 

 fuscous fascia from middle of costa, curved round and ending 

 on middle of inner margin ; in female more or less broken 

 up into spots ; basal hairs ochreous-fuscous ; cilia as in fore- 

 wings. Under side of both wdngs with color and markings as 

 iibove. 



Although showing some variety in depth of coloring the 

 species is easily recognised by the shape of hindwings. We 

 have quoted Goiiihiha nil pcrula, Prittw., as a synonym, but the 

 figure in Ent. Stett. Zeit., is wretched, although undoubtedly 

 pertaining to this species. Larva full fed, 30 m:.n. 

 Moderate rather narrow, cylindrical, smooth, tapering 

 towards posterior segments. Head black, body slaty- 

 grey, second segment yellowish, third segment 

 orange, with a transverse series of four round black spots 

 two on each side of dorsal line ; foiu'th and fifth segments, \vith 

 similar series of four black quadi^ate spots ; tenth segment with 

 two larger qu^idrate black spots, placed on either side; 

 twelfth and thirteenth segments orange, with a large black 

 dorsal spot on extremity of each, and a series of sub-spiracular 

 small black spots, three on either side of dorsal spots; two 

 small black spots on anterior portion of eleventh segment; 

 lines nearly straight, hardly waved ; dorsal moderate, whitish, 

 centred with fuscous throughout ; spiracular, orange, naiTow ; 

 -subra-spiracular broad, whitish, well defined ; sub-spiracular 

 whitish. Spiracles orange, fuscous centred. 



The young larvae, which is semi-transparent yellowish-fus- 



