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visible and followed by a dotted line ; subterminal line com- 

 plete. Hind Avings greyish-white. 



Antenna3 of the male toothed like a saw, each tooth tipped 

 with a minute tuft of line bristles, and otherwise ciliated, 

 pale brown; palpi small, but tufted with very long scales, 

 black outwardly, brownish-white within; eye-hairs dense, 

 brown ; back lashes black ; head strongly tufted between the 

 anteunie, greyish-buff; thorax similar or with a warmer 

 brownish tinge, the scales long and thickly massed ; fascicles 

 white ; abdomen whitish-drab, lateral and anal tufts spread- 

 ing, tinged with pink. Fore wings rather pointed; costa 

 hardly curved; apex angulated ; hind margin oblique, straight 

 to below the middle, thence curved off; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; colour greyish-white, grey-drab, or reddish drab ; 

 basal line suggested by one or two dusky black dots ; first 

 line by one to four black dots on nervures ; second line by a 

 curved row of similar dots; subterminal line complete and 

 very direct, pale yellow or pale red, edged at the back with 

 grey or brown ; orbicular stigma round and of a good size, 

 but only indicated by its pale yellow margin; reniform 

 stigma similarly margined, broad, clouded inside, especially 

 toward the base, with smoky-black ; claviform stigma faintly 

 present as a very obscure blackish curved line ; cilia drab or 

 reddish-drab. Hind wings white dusted with smoky-grey, 

 the nervures rather darker ; costal region faintly tinged with 

 brown, and extreme hind margin edged with the same ; cilia 

 white. Female very closely similar, antennas simple, body 

 stouter, anal tuft very small. 



Underside of the fore wings white, with a smoky tinge in 

 the middle, where also, in the discal cell, is a mass of long 

 smoke-coloured scales ; reniform stigma faintly smoky-black ; 

 beyond it is a distinct transverse line of black spots. Hind 

 wings white dusted with grey-brown ; central spot formed 

 of two crescents one within the other, smoky-black ; beyond 

 is a curved transverse line of black dots. Body and leg-tufts 

 pale purplish- drab ; legs white, tipped with purple-brown. 



