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Antennas of the male notched like a saw and abundantly 

 ciliated, light red ; palpi short, loosely tufted, pale chocolate ; 

 eyes naked and smooth, back lashes purple-red; head choco- 

 late-red, strongly and rather stiffly tufted, a ridge being 

 formed between the antennee, beneath which is a distinct 

 cross channel ; thorax rather broad and flat, smooth, scales 

 long, purple-red, drawn together at the back into tiny tufts ; 

 fascicles reddish-drab ; abdomen dull pale brown, hinder 

 half tinged with yellowish-red ; lateral and anal tufts red- 

 Fore wings broad and truncate ; costa straight ; apex very 

 bluntly rounded ; hind margin straight and nearly perpen- 

 dicular, but rounded off a little at the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin tolerably straight ; colour purple-red, more or less 

 dusted with hoary or bluish-white scales ; costal margin 

 alternately streaked or spotted with chocolate-red and white ; 

 all the markings extremely obscure ; basal line indicated by 

 a short chocolate streak from the costa ; first line hoary, 

 angulated, but only just perceptible ; second line less oblique 

 than is usual, formed of small red-brown crescents edged 

 with greyish-purple ; subterminal line a mere undulating 

 or indented pale thread ; orbicular stigma very large, hoary- 

 purple edged with purple-red ; reniform stigma even more 

 obscure, but partially outlined with purple-red enclosing a 

 paler border; cilia rather lighter red. Hind wings broad, 

 rounded, smoky yellowish-white ; nervures and a slender 

 central spot smoky-brown ; a smoky " tinge lies along the 

 hind margin ; cilia very pale purple-red. Female very 

 similar, antennae threadlike, abdomen broad and rather 

 flattened. 



Underside of the fore wings chocolate-red along tlie costa 

 and hind margin, shading off to dusky yellowish-white along 

 the dorsal margin ; discal cell occupied by long prostrate 

 reddish hair-scales, reniform stigma obscurely smoky-black ; 

 beyond it is a slender transverse line of the same colour. 

 Hind wings dusky white, abundantly dusted with red over 

 the costal region, and brown over the remainder ; central 



