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dorsal margin straig-lit ; colour drab or reddish-drab ; basal 

 line suggested by two cloudy black dots ; first line very 

 obscure, pale yellow faintly edged outwardly with black ; 

 second line indicated by a row of obscure black-brown 

 dots or nervures-, subterminal line the one conspicuous 

 marking upon the wing, nearly straight and very direct, 

 broadly yellow, edged behind with red, and almost parallel 

 with the hind margin; orbicular and reuiform stigmata 

 unusually large and consequently near each other, but 

 only indicated by their margins which are pale yellow 

 and extremely slender; below them a partial similar loop 

 suggests a claviform stigma; crossing the middle of the 

 wing between the upper stigmata is usually a more or less 

 distinct angulated central shade either of deeper ground- 

 colour or dusted with black or dark brown; outside the 

 subterminal line the nervures are usually paler; cilia of 

 the colour of the wings. Hind wings rather small, the 

 hind margin below the apex faintly hollowed ; pale smoky- 

 brown with the nervures rather darker ; costal region white 

 with a pearly lustre ; cilia pale yellowish-brown tipped with 

 white. Female very similar, but antenna? simple, abdomen 

 stouter, and anal tuft very small. 



Underside of the fore wings pale ashy-brown, dusted with 

 darker brown ; whiter before the hind margin ; discal cell 

 filled with long prostrate hair-scales, beyond which is a 

 smoky cloud; dorsal region pearly-white. Hind wings 

 white, dusted, especially all over the costal region, with 

 red-brown; central spot blackish-brown; beyond it is a 

 partial red-brown transverse line. Body purple-brown ; legs 

 pale brown, the tufts more smoky. 



Variable in colour, as already indicated, from the palest 

 drab to red-brown, or to greyish-drab from a dusting of 

 black scales. In Mr. S. J. Capper's collection is a specimen 

 of a dark grey. Mr. G. T. Porritt has one of a rich liver- 

 red. Some of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher's examples, of a pale 

 drab, have no indication of the stigmata, and of these one 



