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the nervures faintly dotted with bhack and white ; discal 

 spot small, black; second line just visible ; subterminal line 

 zigzag, smoky-white. Hind wings smoky-black-brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, ciliated, grey-brown ; palpi 

 blunt, small, depressed, dark brown ; head and thorax dull 

 brownish-grey ; abdomen dark brown ; anal tuft compressed. 

 Fore wings long and narrow ; costa arched at the base, 

 though very flatly so, apex decidedly rounded ; hind margin 

 extremely oblique and verjr little curved ; dorsal margin. 

 rather straight ; colour dull greyish-umbreous, dusted with 

 black-brown ; discal spot obscureh' black ; all the nervures 

 faintly dotted alternately with dull black and dull white; 

 ■costa clouded with black which is interrupted by small 

 whitish clouds ; transverse lines hardly perceptible except 

 that the second seems to be represented by a double series of 

 faint clouds divided and edged by blacker clouding ; sub- 

 terminal line grey-white, very irregular and augulated 

 throughout ; hind margin streaked with black ; cilia dark 

 smoky-brown. Hind wings narrow, rounded behind, fur- 

 rowed between the nervures ; smoky-white dusted with 

 black -brown, and clouded with short transverse bands of the 

 same colour on the dorsal and hind-marginal regions ; ex- 

 treme hind margin edged with short black streaks ; cilia 

 smoky-grey. Female similar. Somewhat similar to E. casti- 

 ,gata, but the fore wings longer and narrower, also more 

 rounded at the apex. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale silvery-grey, 

 shaded by two faint partial smoky stripes beyond the middle. 

 Hind wings equally shining, silvery-white dusted with dark 

 brown and crossed by two smoky-brown cloudy stripes ; 

 central sjjot minute, black. Body and legs dirty whitish- 

 ^rey ; tarsi clouded with black-brown. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva half an inch long ; moderately stout ; very rugose ; 

 tapering a little forward from ths sixth or seventh segment. 



