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light-coloured hair. Hind wing : the costal, black border reaching from end of 



vein 6 to base, narrowing inwards ; the outer margin narrow to vein 1 ; the anal 



margin inside vein 1 dusky black and longly haired ; the small lobe rounded, with 



a rounded, shorter point of scales at end of vein 1, and shorter points at ends of 



3-6 ; the cilia white between the two ; a 5 mm. long tail at end of vein 2 which is 



1 mm. broad in basal third, then narrower, black, tipped finally white. Underside : 



both wings grey, the spots and bands rufous-brown and darkest on their inner and 



outer edges which are, again, bordered thinly lighter or dull-whitish. Fore wing : 



the space in the cell, and between veins 1 and 2 occupying the upper half of that 



interspace in continuation, as far out as the imier edge of the postmedial band, 



slightly lighter rufous-brown than the spots and bands with the following spots 



superposed on it : a small spot in the base of the cell, a larger one in the middle, 



both round and one, more or less quadrate, decreasing upwards in small steps, 



enclosing the discocellular nervules; another at base of interspace 2, its outer edge in 



continuation of the imier edge of the discocellular mark ; a very indistinct spot in 



interspace 1 up against the middle of the bottom of the cell and another, quadrate 



in the obtuse angle formed by the bottom of the cell and vein 2 ; the last two 



extremely indistinct and nearly merged in the groimd-colour ; the upper halves 



of the cell-spots are bordered with pure white, the bottom halves with soiled white 



scales. The rufous-brown streak between veins 1 and 2 outwards is sometimes 



irregular on the lower edge where the grey ground-colour of the wing sometimes 



runs up along the outer border of the spot in the obtuse angle below the base of 



vein 2 ; and, generally, there is a small production of the lower, extreme end of 



the brown streak downwards, very faint, into the lower half of the interspace. 



Beyond there is a more or less erect series of spots in interspaces 2-7 forming a 



postdiscal band, the lowest largest, quadrate or subtriangular, decreasing in size 



upwards, the third from the top moved slightly outwards : the inner and outer 



border dull- white except the inner border of the last two spots which is purer 



white ; beyond again a subterminal straight, transverse, narrow line of the grey 



ground-colour leaving three series of indistinct quadrate spots of a darker (also 



rufous-brown but of a lighter shade) wash in the interspaces, the middle series 



lunulate and outwardly convex, the outer terminal and darkest and not reaching 



the costa : they all start at vein 1. Cilia brown with the outer half grey. Hind 



wing : a minute, basal spot on costa above vein 8 ; a transverse row of four 



romid spots, one in each of the interspaces 7, the cell, 1 and la, the first and 



third largest, the last on the inner margin, all subbasal ; two larger ones beyond : 



one in interspace 7, one in the middle of cell ; a parallel-sided, medially slightly 



outwardly-bent lunule enclosing the discoceUulars with a triangular spot in the 



base of interspace 2 and a larger one in 1 beyond in continuation inwards ; a 



postmedial, transverse band, broken and moved outwards at vein 6, composed 



of a large, subquadrate mark consisting of two outwardly- convex, broad lunules in 



interspaces 6, 7 which mostly touches the discocellular mark inside and is 



continued by a pair of quadrate, much smaller, fainter marks in echelon 



outwards in interspaces 4, 5 followed by another pair in echelon inwards in 



interspaces 2, 3 which are themselves in echelon outwards ; then a 



thinner outwardly convex lunule in 1 running in towards the inner margin 



and finishing up with a doubly- waved band running up to the inner margin 



at about the middle in interspaces la and lb. These markings are followed 



by the same two indistinct, grey, subterminal lines of the ground-colour as on 



the fore wing, leaving the same three series of indistinct rufous-brown markings 



except that, here, in the anal region, the interval between these two grey lines 



is powdered with grey and the medial, brown limules are replaced by thinner, 



black ones in interspaces 2 to la ; on the anal lobe there s a large, deep black, 



round spot bordered inside with light bluish-green meta Uic scales and outside 



by white, with, beyond in interspaces lb, 1,2 a terminal "dusting of mixed black 



and metallic bluish-green scales, bordered inwardly by thin, blackish or dark 



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