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palpi projecting, bluut, black-brown ; face whitisla-brown ; 



top of the head redder ; neck-ridge and thorax pale brown 



dusted with umbreous, tuft at the back short and blunt; 



abdomen grey-brown, faintly barred across the back with 



black ; anal tip small. Fore wings very broad ; costa much 



arched; apex bluntlv angulated ; hind margin strongly 



crenulated, very full and but little curved, and the anal 



angle well formed ; ilorsal margin rather full ; surface very 



glossy, pale ]iuri)lish brown, shaded with purjile and green; 



basal line erect, double, black, enclosing a narrow ]iurple 



stripe ; following it are three more, rippled and abundantly 



angulated, black-brown threads, occupying the space before 



the first line, which is duplicated, indented, black, much 



dilated on the median uervure, and which encloses a purple 



stripe ; second line also black and double, enclosing a purple 



stripe, rather erect, bluntly angulated in the middle and 



throwing out a sharp tooth above, in both which angles it is 



thickened and clouded with black ; so that strousr dark 



clouds are usually, though not always, thrown into the central 



area by this, and also by the first line ; the central band being 



also more shaded with purple, and ornamented with interior 



parallel faint dark lines; towards the apex is a large puri)le- 



black cloud, divided I)y the subtermiual line, which is ri])pled, 



obscurely white, but forms a distinct white spot above the 



anal angle ; all the nervures spotted alternately with black 



and white ; extreme margin edged by an undulating Ijlack 



line ; cilia pale purple, shaded with smoky-brown. Hind 



wings long and very ample, silky, smoky-brown, dusted with 



glistening white, and crossed by numerous rippled faint 



smoky-white lines ; hind margin very deeply scalloped, 



neatly edged with an excessively undulating black line ; 



cilia pale smoky-purple. Female closely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown ; discal spot 

 visible, black ; costa ochreous, repeatedly spotted with black ; 

 second line showing as the edge of a smoky-black shade ; 

 nervures beyond it dappled brown and white. Hind wings 



