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central band bluish-grey or bluish-black ; discal spot black 

 but obscure. Hind wings smoky-white, clouded with grey. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, dark brown ; palpi 

 short, black-brown, face and head purplish-brown ; thorax 

 tawiiy ; abdomen small, slender, whitish-tawny, with a row 

 of deep black dots or minute tufts down the dorsal ridge ; 

 anal tuft compressed. Fore wings but little elongated ; 

 costa faintly curved, more so towards the apex, which is 

 rounded ; hind margin also rounded, but the anal angle well 

 marked ; dorsal margin nearly straight, strongly ciliated ; 

 creamy pale buff or tawny-white clouded with fawn colour ; 

 at the base is a black streak along the costa ; the outer edge 

 of this, with a black dot on the median nervure, and a tawny 

 dot on the subdorsal, indicate the basal line ; in the middle 

 of the wing is a strongly marked bluish-black or blue-grey 

 central band, deep black on the costa and nervures, and the 

 discal spot the same ; on each side of this band is a slender, 

 nearly parallel, line of blackish dusting, one forming an 

 indented first, and the other a curved and rather sinuous 

 second line ; the pale space before the first line is richly 

 and broadly clouded with bright fulvous, and the space 

 beyond the second more narrowly so ; hind-marginal area 

 clouded or banded with rich tawny-red, in which are two 

 blackish blotches, one over the anal angle, the other just 

 above the middle, the nervures also being dashed with black ; 

 through all this runs a whitish, roughly clouded subter- 

 minal line ; extreme hind margin edged with black streaks ; 

 cilia tawny-grey faintly spotted with brown. Hind wings 

 small, rounded behind, smoky-white, mottled from the dorsal 

 margin with grey, and along the hind margin with fulvous 

 and grey ; across the middle is a white band ; hind margin 

 streaked with black ; cilia smoky-white, faintly spotted 

 with black. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoke colour, with a 

 broad yellowish-white baud beyond the middle ; costa spotted 

 with black ; discal spot also black ; nervures blackened; the 



