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shaded line from the middle of the base; hind wings white 

 or smoky-white. 



Antennas of the male rather stout, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 light brown ; hairs of the eyes reddish-brown ; back eye-lashes 

 black, half erect ; palpi rather small but curved up, narrowly 

 tufted, pale drab tinged outside with purplish-brown ; head 

 and collar whitish-drab, the latter doubly barred with very 

 pale brown ; remainder of thorax whiter, the shoulder-lappets 

 covered with very long prostrate scales, along the hinder edge 

 dotted with purplish-black ; fascicles white ; basal segments 

 of the abdomen covered with long white hair-scales, remainder 

 whitish-drab ; lateral and anal tufts rather large and spreading. 

 Fore wings pointed and somewhat truncate ; costa gently 

 arched throughout; apex sharply angulated; hind margin 

 below it faintly hollowed ; expanded below the middle but 

 strongly curved in at the anal angle ; dorsal margin also 

 faintly hollowed, then filled out and almost elbowed below 

 the base ; colour whitish-drab, often with a tinge of red ; all 

 the nervures edged on each side by a very fine and obscure 

 reddish-brown or purplish-brown line ; along the underside 

 of the median uervure, from the base, is a narrow black- 

 brown stripe or shade, often commencing quite black ; 

 frequently a similar but fainter tinge runs along the edge 

 of the subdorsal nervure ; at the end of the discal cell is 

 a black dot. and two more lie in the second line, which 

 is faintly completed by a series of more minute brownish 

 dashes ; along the extreme hind margin is a row of tiny 

 black dots ; cilia whitish-drab. Hind wings white, faintly 

 shaded in the middle with smoky-buff"; central spot large, 

 obscure, smoky-black ; beyond it is a faint line of blackish- 

 brown streaks on nervures ; cilia white. Female quite similar, 

 except that the abdomen is stout and the anal tuft very 

 small and pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings white, tinged along the costal 

 region with pale buff; at the end of the discal cell is a 

 black spot. Hind wings white, dusted with brown along 



