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small ; beyond it is a partial doulile faint brown stripe from tin- 

 dorsal margin ; nearer the hind margin are two more, slender 

 and jialer lines, and the hind marginal area is clouded with 

 glistening pale brown ; extreme margin dotted with black ; 

 cilia white faintly intersected with brown. Female with 

 simple antenna?, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown ; discal 

 spot black ; central band and some hind marginal stripes 

 deeper smoky-brown. Hind wings white ; central s]iot 

 large and black ; in the middle of the wing is a slender 

 distinct undulating transverse line, and beyond it three faint 

 pale ]iarallel lines. Body and legs whitish-brown ; tibia? 

 brown barred with white. 



Variable in the degree of shading upon the pale portions 

 of the fore wings and especially in that upon the hinder area, 

 which also varies in tint from the softest pale fawn-colour to 

 all shades of light brown, and light greyish-brown ; further 

 variable — and far more so — in the shape and the colour of 

 the central band. Occasionally the ground-colour is pure 

 white, almost devoid of shading; in the other extreme the 

 shading sometimes almost obliterates the white ground- 

 coloni'. The central band is usually broadest on the costa, 

 but not uufrequently the large middle angle is so strong as 

 to swell that portion out into the greatest breadth ; and 

 occasionally the expansion on the dorsal margin almost 

 attains to the breadth of either. More often there is some 

 constriction below the middle, and this increases till in some 

 specimens the band is here kept complete only by a faint 

 thread, in others is quite broken and reduced to a large 

 blotch from the costa two-thirds across the wing and a small 

 opposite spot on the dorsal margin, this latter being almost 

 always, in that case, formed of two ocellated s])ots placed 

 perjiendicularly. When the central band is very broad there 

 is usually a white ill-detined blotch from the costa to around 

 the discal dot ; in very rare instances this is continued almost 

 into a white enclosed baud ; and ifr. S. Webb has one in 



