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glossy, yet of a very dull greasy brown, sometimes tinged 

 with red or red-brown ; transverse lines very obscure. Hind 

 wings smoky purple-brown. Female darker, much smaller. 



Antenn;« of the male simple but much thickened, the 

 basal joint still more so, and the second twisted and bent, 

 bronzy-brown ; palpi very long, porrected and nearly straight, 

 brown ; head and thorax dull reddish-brown, the latter 

 rather robust ; abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wings elongated, 

 broad behind, and very evenly increasing in breadth from 

 the base ; costa almost sti'aight ; apex bluntly rounded ; 

 hind margin smoothly curved and a little oblique ; colour 

 yellow-drab, brown-drab, or reddish-drab; first line obscure, 

 almost an erect faint purplish-red cloud; second line more 

 oblique and a little angulated above the middle but cloudy 

 and faint, of the same colour; beyond it is a still fainter 

 transverse similar cloud ; cilia yellow-drab. Hind wings 

 very broad and ample, the hind margin sinuous yet rounded ; 

 dark smoky-brown ; cilia brownish-white. 



Underside reddish-drab, shading to yellowish-white toward 

 the dorsal margin. Hind wings smoky-white with a reddish 

 tinge in front. Body and legs brown. 



Female much smaller, often not more than one half the 

 expanse of wings, but the thorax and abdomen rather thicker, 

 the fore wings narrower and rather more shining ; the two 

 lines usually broader and more distinct, either brown or 

 purple ; the hind wings, and the underside, decidedly darker 

 or greyer. 



Variable in both sexes in the fore wings to whitish -grey 

 on the one hand, to deep dark purple-brown on the other ; 

 the hind wings paler or darker in accordance there- 

 with. 



On the wing from .June till the beginning of August. 



Larva and pupa apparently undescribed. Herr A. 

 Schmidt says that the larva feeds in May on Hdia atkcnriim 

 vulijurc and Artciiiisia cariqjcdris, in a tubular silken passage 



