130 THE ARRINDY SILKWORM MOTH. 
In other respects the following description applies 
to both :— 
« Head roundish; eyes large, bright, dark brown ; 
antenne pectinated, light brown; those of the male 
narrower ; length equal to that of the head and 
thorax ; palpi four, as in P. paphia ; mouth none ; 
thorax oval, completely covered with long, fine, 
brownish hair, with a band of white down round 
the neck; abdomen oblong (in the female greatly 
larger), clothed with much fine white down above, 
and with alternate triangular spots of white and 
brown on the sides and belly; legs six; wings 
incumbent, expanded when at rest; superior, 
or first pair, faleated; prevailing colour brownish 
gray; a subdiaphanous, curved, white, and rust 
coloured hand crosses from the centre of the anterior 
(sector) margin to near the middle of the inner slip 
or edge ; from nearly the middle of which, on the 
inside, another short white bar runs to the posterior 
edge of the shoulder, and one to the inner part of 
the sector edge, forming a dark angular spot in the 
centre of the junction of these two small bars with 
the first mentioned long one. Adjoining to the fore 
part of this angular spot is a semilunar, somewhat 
pellucid speck, with a yellowish centre; near the 
rounded faleated apex of each wing is a small dark 
coloured eye, with the anterior margin thereof 
white ; their posterior margins are entire, and con- 
cave towards the point, with a lighter coloured 
