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segments ; dorsal ridge with a miuute black tuft on the edge 

 of each segment except the last; lateral and anal tufts rather 

 compressed. Fore wings broad, ample, and raiher blunt ; costa 

 arched throughout, but especially at the apex, which is 

 almost augulated ; hind margin not very oblique, curved and 

 slightly uneven ; anal angle rather prominent ; dorsal margin 

 sti-aight ; colour whitish-brown, shaded with fulvous or red- 

 brown ; basal line black, bluntly angulated outwards, and 

 followed at a short distance by a faint red-brown band ; 

 first line slender, obscurely black, much angulated on the 

 nervures ; immediately beyond it is a black-brown central 

 stripe, broadest and blackest at the costa and enclosing the 

 large deep black discal spot, below this very much more 

 slender; second line rather erect, black-brown, blackened at 

 the costa and on every nervure, followed by a sinuous rivulet of 

 the whitish ground colour, which is intersected throughout by 

 a faint brown thread ; beyond this is a broad shaded reddish- 

 brown or purplish-brown stripe, and then the hind marginal 

 area dusted and clouded with tawny and grey-brown, through 

 which runs a much angulated white subterminal line ; 

 extreme hind margin edged by thick black streaks which 

 are separated by whitish dots ; cilia pale brown with darker 

 clouding and dashes. Hind wings rather broad ; the hind 

 margin sinuous and somewhat angulated at the apex, middle, 

 and anal coi'iier, white shaded with brown ; central spot 

 small, black ; from the base to the anal angle, arising on the 

 dorsal margin, is a succession of partial rippled brown lines 

 and stripes, that one which coincides with the second line 

 of the fore wings being thicker, blacker, and more complete 

 than the rest, but those following, though fainter, are nearly 

 complete ; extreme hind margin edged with thick black 

 streaks ; cilia brownish-white. Female larger, often whiter, 

 but the markings more emphasised, and the red-brown or 

 purplish-brown tints more decided, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings white, shaded in the middle 

 with smoky-grey ; discal sjiot large, black ; second line 



