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black ; on tlie costa are three or four black or smoky-black 

 bars or spots. Hind wings smoky whitish-brown. 



Antennre of the male short, simple, ciliated, light brown ; 

 palpi small, pointed, dark umbreous ; head and thorax light 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen of the same colour, but with a 

 broad baud of dull black, edged with red-brown, across the 

 hinder half of the basal segment ; anal tuft closely com- 

 pressed. Fore wings broad ; costa evenly arched, and the 

 subcostal rib very strong and prominent ; apex rounded ; 

 hind margin a little expanded and very fully curved ; dorsal 

 margin full and strongly ciliated ; colour glossy whitish- 

 brown of a very clear soft tint ; basal line formed by a black 

 streak on the costa and a dot on the median nervure ; first 

 line by a broader black costal spot and a dot each on the 

 median and subdorsal nervures, and dorsal margin : central 

 line by a smaller black costal spot and faint indications of 

 dots on the nervures ; it bends so as to enclose the discal 

 spot, which is erect and deep black ; the second line arises 

 on the costa as a larger deep black spot, and continues as a 

 minute black dot on every nervure to the dorsal margin ;, 

 subterminal line very faintly indicated in whitish dusting ; 

 cilia shining pale grey-brown, faintly dotted with cloudy 

 black. Hind wings rather small, rounded behind ; whitish- 

 brown ; the dorsal region faintly browner, and very indis- 

 tinctly barred with darker brown commencements of lines ; 

 central spot obscurely black ; cilia pale grey-brown. Female 

 very similar but decidedly larger. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale reddish-brown ; 

 nervures darker ; costa lighter brown but barred with black 

 before, and very distinctly beyond, the discal spot, which 

 also is black ; beyond it is a dotted brown transverse line, and 

 a broader clouded stripe near the hind margin. Hind wings 

 brownish-white, clouded behind with two browner bands ; cen- 

 tral spot black ; cilia spotted with black. Body and legs brown. 



Apparently only variable in size, and in the paleness of 

 the white-brown ground colour. 



