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outer lino to below apex ; a clomly waved darker .submargiual shade ; marf;iiial 

 black spots between veins; fringe dark brown ; cell-spot small, black. 



Illiu/winq: without basal line; antemedian incurved in cell before the cell- 

 si)ot; outer double line straight, at thrce-fiftlis ; the marginal brown area paler. 



? without the dark brown marginal area ; often with a double black blotch 

 before outer line from 5 to 3, with a single black blotch beyond it between 3 and 4. 



Underside of forewing of S brown along costa and in marginal area; basal liaU' 

 ochreous spotted with brown ; middle and outer lines Ijrown ; some dashes of bluisii 

 white before apex and bluish-white sjiots at base of fringe : hiudwing bluish white 

 speckled with brown, with the lines brown and fulvous, the veins fulvous ; in 

 the ? the bluish-white tint is much more developed in both wing.s ; cell-spots 

 black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fawn-colour ; face and palpi mottled with Itrown ; 

 antennae ciliated. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



7 c?c?, 4 ? ?. 



The aberration (lensitiotata occurs in the ? only ; all three lines are distinct, 

 thick and brown-black or black ; the outer is followed by dark blotches between 

 veins, interrupted between 4 and in the forewing, less marked but not interrupted 

 in hindwing ; the ground-colour is pale lilac-grey, or whitish, or pinky ochreous, 

 with more evident speckling; underside more variegated, the lines more prominent. 



3 ??. 



In ab. ochri mixta the ground-colour in both sexes is dirty whitish speckled with 

 darker ; the S S, as in the type form, with darker marginal areas. 



3 SS, 3 ? ?. 



In ab. albisparsa , confined to the ? ? only, the ground-colour is white, more or 

 less densely powdered with grey ; the marginal area darker grey with a whitisii 

 blotch above vein ; the lines dark from costa, and often marked by dark dashes on 

 veins ; the black blotches of outer line nearly always present, and in some instances 

 largely developed and laterally confluent; the underside much whiter. 



8 ? ?. 



Lastly, the ab. caesi/ifa, which is restricted to the c?t?, has the whole upperside 

 slaty purplish ; the lines dark, tinged with ferruginous : the underside with fewer 

 whitish scales. 



3 c?c?. 



21.5. lulocera albinigra .spec, no v. 



Forciciiiij : uniform dark purplish slate-colour; costa with fine pale dots; 

 lines blackish ; first at one-fifth, slightly bent at median vein ; second before 

 one-half, angled below subcostal, and touching the black cell-spot ; outer line at 

 two-thirds, bluntly bent at vein 5, preceded by yellowish scales, thickened between 

 3 and 4 and followed by a dark cloud ; a white subapical spot above vein ; 

 fringe concolorous, with white spots along base beyond the black marginal spots. 



Himlwimj : with antemedian and outer lines close together and i)arallel, the 

 outer edged internally with yellow scales ; cell-spot black ; submargiual line pale, 

 very indistinct. 



Underside with the lines and bands dark, the intervals paler, with a few bluish- 

 white specks, all much more prominent and numerous in the hindwing ; subapical 

 spot of forewing and basal spots of fringe white and largely developed. 



