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rather distinct ; eyes naked, the lashes at the back thick 

 and black ; head tufted, light purple-brown ; thorax reddish- 

 brown, smooth, but the scales gathered into two small tufts 

 at the back ; fascicles smoky-brown ; abdomen covered towards 

 the base with similar long hair-scales; behind these more 

 purplish-brown ; lateral and anal tufts spreading, tinged 

 with purple. Fore wings of moderate breadth and rather 

 pointed ; costa gently curved ; apex angulated ; hind margin 

 oblique, rather curved ; dorsal margin also very slightly 

 rounded ; colour dull purplish-brown, tawny-brown, or grey- 

 ish-bi-own, often paler behind, dusted and dappled, more 

 especially towards the costal region, with black-brown ; basal 

 line not clearly perceptible ; first line rather far from the 

 base, very obscure, most observable as a dusting of black- 

 brown on the nervures and running along them ; second 

 line partially visible in crescents, which form the inner edge 

 of a more complete dusky curved shade, outside which the 

 nervures are singly or doubly dotted with black in a more 

 distinct series ; subterminal line an irregular indented rip- 

 pling of very pale brown, sometimes hardly noticeable ; 

 orbicular stigma round, tawny-red, surrounded with white 

 and ringed with black ; reniform stigma large, similarly 

 coloured and edged, except that the margin is interrupted 

 above and below ; no claviform stigma ; extreme hind margin 

 edged with minute black lunules ; whenever there is paler 

 clouding in the hinder area a dark red or black-brown oblique 

 streak from the costa before the apex sharply divides the 

 two colours ; cilia dusky-brown. Hind wings rather small, 

 the hind margin slightly sinuous ; pale smoky-brown at the 

 base with the nervures much darker, shading off to dark 

 smoky-brown behind ; cilia dusky-white, with a dark brown 

 intersecting line. Female very similar, but the costa of the 

 fore wings rather more arched, body stouter, hind wings 

 more uniformly dark. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, tinged with 

 purplish-red along the costa, and having a broad white dorsal 



