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faint transverse darker line beyond the middle, much bent 

 outwards ; hind wings rather paler, with a similar transverse 

 line. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, bronzy brown, front of the 

 base white ; palpi porrected, pointed, pale chocolate ; basal 

 portion of the tongue white ; head chocolate, edged on 

 either side with silvery white ; thorax slender, pale bronzy 

 brown ; abdomen very slender, grey-brown ; a whitish ring 

 edging each segment. Fore wings long and narrow ; the 

 costa gently arched beyond the middle ; apex sharply 

 pointed ; hind margin very oblique ; colour dark grey- 

 brown, shining with a bronzy gloss ; the markings very in- 

 distinct ; first line erect, obscurely darker brown ; orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata barely visible, dark brown; second 

 line of the same colour but edged with paler brown, strongly 

 bowed outwardly ; cilia concolorous, shining. Hind wings 

 narrow but prolonged toward the apex ; pale smoky brown, 

 whitish toward the front margin, nervures faintly paler ; 

 a slender brown transverse line beyond the middle is fol- 

 lowed by a darker clouding along the hind margin ; cilia 

 concolorous, very glossy. Female similar, but with the 

 abdomen shorter. 



Undersides of all the wings shining smoky white ; the 

 stigmata and second line of the fore wings and the slender 

 line of the hind wings all perceptibly darker ; the undersurface 

 of the head, palpi, and thorax white ; of the abdomen and 

 the legs smoky white. 



Not variable. 



On the wing in June and July. 



Larva about an inch in length and of tolerable bulk in 

 proiDortion ; head globular and shining, small, about the 

 same width as the second, but much narrower than the 

 succeeding segments ; body cylindrical but very markedlj^ 

 attenuated toward the extremities ; segmental divisions 

 rather deep ; skin glossy and semi-translucent, clothed with 



