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exteriore indeterminata albido flava, spatio adhuc exteriore pallide 

 piirpurasceute ferrngineo guttas quatuor fuscas cinereo marginatas 

 includente, linea postica cinerea arcuata fusco margiiiata apud 

 niargineni exteriorem dilatata, linea basali fu.sca aiigulo.sa, gutta 

 discuidali nigTa; alis posticis cinereo fuscis. 



Female. Ferruginous, cinereous l)eneat]i. Frontal tuft bordered 

 with white. Third joint of the palpi hoary, hlack-speckled, wholly- 

 black towards the tip, wliich is hoary. Abdomen cinereous. 

 Fore wings with a white transverse middle inward-curved line, 

 which is black bordered on its inner side, and is accompanied on the 

 outer side by a wiiitish yellow incompleti^ irregular band; exterior 

 space pale purplish feriaiginous, with f(jur 1)rown partly cinereous- 

 bordered dots, which form a transverse undulatiiig line in front of 

 a cinereous curved line; the latter is brown-bordered on both 

 sides, and extends from the a])ical })art of the interioi' l)ord('r 

 towards the hind part of the exterior border, where it terminates 

 in a ])rown patch ; a zig zag transverse brown line near the base, 

 and an antemedial black dot in the disk. Hind wings cinereous 

 brown; fringe cinereous. Lengtii of tlie body ti^ lines; of tin; 



wings 18 lines. 



Clen. Kaclia. 



Fcem. Corpus keve, sat validum. Caput fasciculo fi-ontali por- 

 recto longissinio acuto. Proboscis breviuscula. Palpi graciles, loeves, 

 oblique ascendentes, verticem longe superantes; articulus 3"' line- 

 aris, 2" pauUo longior. Antenna' sat robustfe. Abdomen alas posti- 

 cas sat superanos. Pedes heves, graciles, ti])iis anticis fasciculatis, 

 calcaribus longissimis gracillimis. Ala? anticfe acut:«, vix fjilcatre, 

 costa peri)arum convexa margine exteriore postico rotundato 

 obli(|uo. 



Female. Body smooth, moderately stout. Fi'ontal tuft pornsct, 

 acute, extending much l)eyond the head. Proboscis rather short. 

 Pal]»i slender, smooth, ol)li(picly ascending, rising nnich higher 

 than the vertex; 3rd joint linear, rounded at the ti]), a little 

 longer than the 2nd. Antenna^ ratlusr stout. Abdomen extend- 

 ing somewhat beyond the liiud wings. TiCgs smooth, slendei-; 

 fore le^s short, their tibiio tufted; sjjurs very long and slender. 

 Wings moderately broad. Fore wings acute, hardly falcate; costa 

 very slightly rounded; hind part of tlus exterior border rounded 

 and obli(|ue; 2nd inferior vein nntch nearer to the 3rd than to 

 the Ist; 1th remote. 



