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brown, abnndfintly dusted with brown ; collar paler but 

 barred, close to its upper margin, with darker purple-brown ; 

 top crest sometimes indistinguishable, in other cases raised 

 and pushed forward, but narrow ; back crest more conspi- 

 cuous, tipped with dark brown ; fascicles much curved, 

 white; abdomen long, whitish-brown, browner along the 

 dorsal ridge, with one to four short and usually very obscure 

 and fugitive darker brown crests ; lateral tufts small but 

 placed on a distinct ridge; anal tuft narrow, tinged with 

 orange-red. Fore wings sharply cut and somewhat tri- 

 angular ; costa nearly straight but a little curved toward the 

 apex, which is sharply angulated ; hind margin just below it 

 slightly hollowed, thence becoming full and suddenly bent 

 in below the middle ; dorsal margin faintly concave, but 

 having a projecting tuft close to the base ; colour pale 

 purple-brown, clouded with olive-brown ; basal line slender, 

 abbreviated, in one curve, olive-brown ; first line similarly 

 slender, undulating but perpendicular ; second lino rich 

 dark brown, very oblique and straight to just below the 

 costa, where it makes a sudden bend back ; this line is 

 edged inwardly by a broad olive-brown or olive-purple 

 shaded band, which joins a similar but narrower shaded and 

 bent stripe through the middle of the wing; outside the 

 second line is a broad straight stripe of very pale ground 

 colour, and just beyond it a faint and partial similarly 

 coloured subterminal line which is edged outwardly, and in 

 part inwardly, with darker purple-brown colouring, the latter 

 forming a stripe along the hind margin ; orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata of the ground colour, finely yet distinctly 

 edged with purple-brown ; along the extreme hind margin is 

 a purple-black line ; cilia pale purple-brown. Hind wino-s 

 rather narrow, with the hind margin sinuous; dull white, 

 dusted with smoky-brown, and with a golden gloss ; nervures 

 smoky-brown ; across the middle of the wing is a similar slender 

 stripe ; cilia dusky-white. Antenna3 of the female threadlike ; 

 abdomen stouter with smaller anal tuft, otherwise similar. 



