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anteiinnc iiiul aiiaiii at n point a little beliiiul it. I'alpl whlto at base ami on flic basal 

 half of the miiUlle joint, especially on the .skies ; below and above it clianges to tawny 

 on approaching the tip, mingled above and at the tip with many blackish scales; along 

 the lower ed-ie of the outer surface a row of distant, long, delicate, black bristles, 

 besides which there arc many scattered, elongate, black scales dotting the under sur- 

 face, increasing in nnuibor toward the tip; apical joint blackish brown, enlivened 

 on the sides with tawny. .Vntennae blackish brown, narrowly annulated with white 

 at the base of the joints, broadest posteriorly, where, at the base of the club, those 

 of consecutive joints merge into a continuous silvery white band. Naked portion of 

 the tip brighter or duller luteous. Tongue blackish castaneous, luteo-castancous at tip. 



Thorax covered above with dull, tawny hairs, becoming brownish tawny on the 

 patagia; beneath with dull white scales and hairs. Legs blackish brown, overlaid 

 with pearly white scales and hairs on the outer and under surface, and on the femora 

 also on the inner surface; on the tarsi the white is tinged with buff and encircles the 

 basal half of the joints; the inner side of the tibiae is also besprinkled with white 

 scales, and the leaf-like appendage of the fore pair is dull luteous; spurs white, 

 brown beneath and at ti|> ; spines pale bull'; claws luteous. 



Wings above tawny, broaiUy bordered with dark brown. Fore wings generally so 

 e.\tensively suffused with the same as to be better described as dark brown, flushed 

 with dull tawny, especially above the cell, but excepting the costal edge and the ex- 

 tremities of the subcostal nervules; the discoidal cell, and particularly its apical half, 

 is usually darker than the surrounding parts. Fringe obscure dark brown, apically a 

 little paler, or mingled pale and brown. Hind xoings with the disc bright tawny, a 

 uniform broad border extending along the whole costal margin as far as the subcos- 

 tal nervure and around the outer nuugin, as far as the lowest median nervule, beyond 

 which It narrows more or less, and terminates at the submedian nervure; in addition, 

 the basal three-fourths of the inner margin is narrowly bordered with griseous and 

 similar clusters of scales obscure the basal fourth of the wing between the nervures; 

 the basal half of the wing is covered with frequent long, tawny hairs. Fringe tawny, 

 mingled with a very few brownish scales, and apically with paler ones. 



Beneath golden tawny, the hind wings immaculate, the fore wings slightly darker 

 than the hind wings, and not only, as often on the hind wings, edged throughout with a 

 dark brown line thickened a little at the nervure tips on the costal margin, but with 

 the whole lower portion of the wing uniformly fuliginous brown, bounded above by 

 the subcostal nervure, and limited outward by a line drawn from the tip of the third 

 superior subcostal nervule to the inner angle of the wing. Fringe of fore wings dusky 

 brown, suffused, especially in the middle, with saffron; fringe of hind wings of the 

 ground color of the wings. 



Abdomen very dark purplish brown above, on the sides tawny, beneath white. 

 Upper organ of male appendages (37 : 1) with the hook-ribbon tapering but little, apex 

 squarely docked or a little concave; it is twice as long as the breadth of tlie tip, 

 which is directed downward; the overlying hook is like a curved needle; the inferior 

 lamina is nearly as deep as the centrum, and its anterior tooth depends as far as the 

 hook. Clasps fully six times as long as broad, the basal two-thirds undivided, nearly 

 eqnal. with a slight elevation near the middle above; upper lobe exceedingly slender, 

 equal, bluntly terminated, two-thirds as long as the apical portion of the blade, 

 and having the same direction as it; the latter is half as broad as the basal poi'tion of 

 the clasp, equal, bluntly terminated, curved considerably upward and turned inward a 

 little, the apex furnished with minute prickles. 



Described from 63 specimen!!, of which 36 J ,^12 9 . 



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