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apical joint small ; head rather loosely tufted, whitish-brown ; 

 thorax smooth, pale brown, dusted with darker ; scales of the 

 shoulder-lappets very long and having a few black dots ; 

 fascicles pale greyish-brown ; aljdomen rather flattened, pale 

 smoky-brown ; lateral and anal tufts paler. Fore wings 

 long, rather pointed, narrow at the base ; costa very straight, 

 except near to the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin slightly hollowed below it, and then smoothly curved; 

 dorsal margin straight ; colour dull iimbreous or brownish- 

 drab, shaded and dusted with red-brown or orange; costa 

 rather paler ; two unmargined roundish clouds of dull orange 

 in the discal cell indicate the orbicular and reniform stigmata, 

 and at the base of the latter, placed on the fork of the 

 median nervure, is a white dot ; second line visible as a row 

 of black dots situated upon nervures, which otherwise are 

 dotted obscurely with black, and very faintly streaked with 

 brownish-white ; from the apex of the wing an oblique 

 black cloudy line crosses the middle of the dotted, second 

 line, curving down to the dorsal margin ; extreme hind 

 margin obscurely dotted with brown ; cilia reddish-brown, 

 dusted with darker. Hind wings broad, very slightly acute 

 at the apex and hollowed below it, the margin thence 

 sinuous ; colour smoky-brown, paler and pearly at the base ; 

 nervures dark brown, cilia white. Female extremely similar, 

 the abdomen rather stouter and more pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoke colour, dorsal 

 region pearly white ; a dark cloud lies at the end of the 

 discal cell, and beyond it a darker smoky band. Hind wings 

 pearly-white, dusted along the costal region with pale smoky- 

 brown, and broadly banded with the same along the hind 

 margin. Body and leg-tufts whitish -brown ; legs dark brown. 



Hardly variable, except in the more red or brown tone of 

 clouding of the fore wings. 



On the wing in August, September, and October. 



Larva when full grown 1| inch in length. Its body 

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