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whitish-drab ; abdomen glossy brownish-white. Fore wings 

 elongate, narrow ; costa nearly straight, but arched a little 

 toward the apex ; this last is very bluntly angulated, almost 

 rounded; hind margin short and faintly curved ; colour very 

 pale brown, or brownish-drab, with small scattered white 

 clouds, first line slender, black, erect but bent back above 

 the middle, edged inwardly with light red-bi-own, and this 

 again bounded by a small black cloud; second line rather 

 thicker, black, oblique and strongly undulating ; edging the 

 discal cell is a horizontal white streak which clasps a small 

 black discal dot ; around this are scattered black atoms ; this 

 second line is edged outwardly by a faint jjarallel tawny 

 stripe ; and the hind margin by rough black dots ; cilia 

 whitish-brown. Hind wings broad, rounded behind, shining 

 smoky-white ; cilia nearly white. Female similar, but with 

 filiform antennae. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky-brown to the 

 second line, which is dull black ; and the area beyond pale 

 brown. Hind wings smoky yellowish-white. Body and 

 legs pale brown. 



On the wing at the end of July and in August. 



Larva nearly three-fourths of an inch long ; the head full 

 and rounded at the sides, pale drab thickly covei-ed with 

 black-brown spots and curved blotches, but above the mouth 

 is a transverse white band ; second and third segments a 

 little larger ; thence even in size to the tenth, and from this 

 tapering a little to the thirteenth ; colour pale drab ; dorsal 

 line blackish-brown, narrowly edged by the ground colour ; 

 then a ragged-edged stripe of reddish-drab ; along the sub- 

 dorsal region is a broad blackish-brown stripe ; undersurface 

 reddish-drab, slightly inclining to grey ; on the sides of the 

 third and twelfth segments, situated in the broad dark stripe, 

 is an ocellated spot, whitish-grey with a black centre, bearing 

 a tine pale hair, longer than those from the ordinary raised 

 dots ; spiracles ringed with black ; legs reddish-brown ; 



