Galapagos Species Database

Male. — Head, collar, thorax and fore wing varying from buffy brown to sayal brown irrorated with darker scales. Abdomen above drab with pale segmental lines; a lateral vague line, the anal hairs and base of abdomen below whitish, the latter otherwise suffused with russet vinaceous; mid tibiae, hind tibiae and tarsi whitish irrorated with russet vinaceous; fore tibiae and tarsi russet vinaceous irrorated with white. Fore wing with the lines fine, fuscous black; antemedial line inwardly pale edged, outbent from costa forming a lunule below cell and one below submedian; orbicular a white dark edged point; reniform large, somewhat oblique 8 shaped fuscous black or white, in the latter case crossed by a fine black line; postmedial outwardly pale, edged, outcurved between veins 7 and 6 and 5 and 4, deeply incurved between 5 and 6, incurved between 4 and 3 then in and upbent to within cell before reniform, obliquely downbent to fold below cell and obliquely outcurved to inner margin; subterminal shade fuscous black, sinuous; a terminal lunular line preceded by slightly fuscous shadings; cilia of ground color with faint pale line at base and white tips spotted with black. Hind wing hair brown, cilia similar but light buff at base and tipped with white. Fore wing below hair brown; inner margin narrowly and a streak of hairs in cell white; subcostal and veins above 4 irrorated with white; termen light buff shaded with onion skin pink towards apex. Hind wing below white the costal half thickly irrorated with russet vinaceous; a similar minutely lunular postmedial line; a white streak on discocellular; some dark subterminal shading; cilia white crossed by faint mouse gray shading expanse (Schaus, 1923).