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cinct ; anal tuft long. Fore vviiigs narrow, especially so at 

 the ])ase ; co.sta remarkably slraiplit ; apex rounded; hind 

 margin long, evenly curved; dorsal margin also rather filled 

 out ; colour ])alf lilue-grey ; basal lineobli(|ue. black, slender, 

 most distinct on the costa ; first line also obli()ue. nearly 

 straight, black, forming the inner i-ilge of a liroad blackish- 

 grey stri])t' ; second line more olilii(iie, twice toothed out- 

 wardly above the middle, but forming a long hollow below, 

 and being the outer edge of another broad dark grey strijie ; 

 very often these two stripes coalesce below the middle, but 

 always they enclose a central ba:i(l either entire or in two 

 sections, of the pale ground culoiir ; .second lineclo.sely edged 

 outside with a white line, whieh is thicker and more dis- 

 tinct on the costa; outside this is a beautiful chestnut-red or 

 tawny cloud, against the two angles, throwing one point 

 oblifjuely into the apex of the wing, and another to the 

 middle of the hind margin ; almve tiiis is a gre\' cloud at the 

 casta, outside and below it are others on the hind margin, the 

 e.Ktreme edge of which is spottefl with black luiniles ; cilia 

 white chetpiered with black-lirowu. Hind wings rather 

 elongated, rounded i)ehiiid, dark or pale smoky brown ; cilia 

 of the same colour. I'Vmale fjuite similar, or a little ])aler. 



Undersides of all the wings smoky-lu'own, strongly tinged 

 •with brick-red ; the second line of the fore wings indicated 

 in smoky-black, and the portion fi'om this to the base and 

 dorsal margin clouded with the same ; central spot of the 

 hind wings black ; beyond it is an angulated slender trans- 

 verse black line ; cilia all dark brown, distinctly spotted 

 with white. J5ody dark brown dusted with white ; legs dark 

 browu. tarsi bhirk. 



\'ariable as already indicated in the extent of the central 

 ])ale band, which is broad, narrow, constricted below the 

 middle, or divided into costal and dorsal ])atches ; occasion- 

 ally it is almost or Cjuite filled uj) with grey, though not so 

 deeply as to form a dark band even with the two stripes. 

 There is also a little instabilitv in the ground colour, which 



