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segment with dark brown and white ; anal tuft small, pale 

 brown. Costa of the fore wings arched at the base and 

 beyond the middle, less so between; apex bluntly but 

 decidedly angulated ; hind margin oblique, not strongly 

 curved; dorsal margin nearly straight ; ground colour white; 

 basal blotch blackish-umbreous edged with black and followed 

 by grey clouding which almost fills the space between it and 

 the first line ; the latter is strongly curved and edged in- 

 wardly with white ; it forms the inner margin of a broad 

 black-brown central band, of which the outer margin, form- 

 ing the second line, is always smooth and even, except that 

 a distinct outward angle projects just above the middle ; 

 above this it is faintly hollowed, but below considerably so, 

 yet without indentations ; within the central baud is a deep 

 black discal spot in a cloud of black dusting ; immediately 

 outside the band is a clear stripe of pure white ground colour 

 followed by a broad double hind marginal band of smoky- 

 lilack or smoky -grey clouds, divided by a subterminal white 

 line of short crescents, from which a white dash is thrown 

 off to the tip of the wing and another to the middle of the 

 hind margin; cilia smoky-brown. Hind wings rather 

 elongated, rounded behind ; white, clouded from the base 

 with grey-brown in which is a small blackish central dot ; 

 beyond this are several faint, rippled, grey-brown, slender 

 transverse lines which do not reach the costal margin ; hind 

 marginal space occupied by a broad, cloudy, grey-brown band 

 in which is a much rippled white line ; cilia greyish-white. 

 Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale greyish-brown to the 

 second line, which, with its single angle, is distinctly repeated, 

 as also is the divided hind-marginal cloudy band, the two 

 separated by a white stripe. Hind wings white, the central 

 spot and rippled dark lines more conspicuous ; as also is the 

 inner portion of the hind-marginal band, the outer being 

 paler. Eody and legs brownish-white. It is worthy of 

 remark that when freshly emerged the ground colour is 



