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broad, truncate ; costa faintly curved ; apex bluntly and 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin straight below it and 

 almost perpendicular to just above the anal angle, where it 

 is rounded off; dorsal margin straight ; colour dirty yellow- 

 brown or smoky pale brown, dappled and clouded with 

 umbreous but having over all a shining golden gloss ; basal 

 line very obscure, a faint black streak edged with pale brown ; 

 first line also obscure, irregular, dull brown ; second line 

 more visible, but very slender and rather upright, indented, 

 black-brown ; subterminal line a slender indented pale stripe 

 of yellowish-brown, which is preceded by a broad dull brown 

 band, and followed by another which lies along the hind 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform stigmata rather obscure and 

 ill-defined, blackish-brown or dull brown ; below them is a 

 partial cloudy brown central shade ; costal margin obscurely 

 dotted with brown and black ; cilia pale grey dashed and 

 barred with dark smoky-brown. Hind wings rather ample, 

 rounded behind, silky white ; nervures partially tinged with 

 dark brown ; extreme hind margin edged with the same ; 

 cilia smoky-white, barred with dark brown. Female slightly 

 smaller, with shorter, rather stouter abdomen, but very 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull glistening smoky-brown, 

 with a faint black transverse stripe arising from the costa 

 beyond the middle and just traceable across the wing. Hind 

 wings white, with the apex dark brown, and the costal region 

 dusted with brown ; central spot black ; near the apex of 

 the wing is the commencement of a smoky-black transverse 

 stripe, which hardly reaches the middle ; and along the hind 

 margin is a narrow clouding and dusting of the same. Body 

 and legs dull brown. 



Rather variable in the ground-colour from pale yellowish- 

 brown to very dark smoky-brown, and in the degree of 

 dappling or mottling of dark brown, which usually is most 

 distinct in the paler individuals. One such, in the collection 

 of the late Mr. H. Doubleday, has the mottling on a very 



