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yellow ; palpi projecting, yellow-brown ; face, head, and 

 neck-ridge pale-yellow ; thorax similar but faintly tinged 

 with chocolate in front, tuft at the liack small and blunt ; 

 abdomen long and slender, pale brownish-jellow ; lateral 

 tufts distinct ; anal tuft long. Fore wings long and pointed, 

 almost pyraliforme ; costa regularl}' arched ; apex sharply 

 angulated ; hind margin beneath it faintly retuse, thence 

 very oblicpie and but little curved ; dorsal margin also rather 

 straight; colour pale yellow ; basal line somewhat angulated. 

 indistinct, purplish-browu ; costa from it to the base darker 

 brown ; first and second lines purplish-brown or pale choco- 

 late, rather near together and partially parallel, curved, or 

 sometimes the second is once rather angulated ; the space 

 between them faintly clouded with reddish-brown, but 

 hardly darker than the rest of the wing ; sometimes a few 

 faint brownish cloudy dots or streaks in the hind marginal 

 area seem to suggest a subterminal line, but often these are 

 imi)erceptible ; usually a faint brown streak from the apex 

 runs very obliquely into the same area, but ihis also is not 

 always apparent ; when it is jiresent there is usually a little 

 dark clouding on the nearest portion of the hind margin \ 

 cilia of this portion pale brown, shading below to pale 

 yellow. Hind wings long ovate, rounded behind ; yellowish- 

 white ; almost without markings, but a suggestion of a 

 central transverse line is sometimes faintly perceptible ; cilia 

 pale-yellow. Female similar, body rather shorter. 



Undersides of all the wings pale straw-colour ; costa of the 

 fore wings shaded with yellow and brown ; second line 

 visible as a brown stripe, angulated in the middle, more 

 slender below, but exactly continued on the hind wings as a. 

 slender, curved, yellow-brown line, above which is a brown 

 central spot, and below it, toward the anal angle, a round 

 brown spot. l>ody and legs brownish-yellow. 



Variable in the depth of colour of the markings, which 

 are often partiall}^ obliterated. The transverse lines are the 

 most persistent, but they are pale in specimens in whit'h th<^ 



