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4. O. litura, Z.— Expanse 1;^ to 1^ inch. Fore wings 

 dull purplish-red-browu with four conspicuous black marks 

 on the costa, in the middle an angulated dark-brown shade ; 

 reniform stigma smoky-black. Hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, rather short, minutely 

 ciliated, light brown ; palpi broadly tufted, purple-brown, 

 apical joint short and blunt ; eyes deep black with black- 

 brown lashes ; head rather strongly tufted between the 

 antennne and slightly channelled below them, pale purple- 

 brown ; thorax darker purple-brown, the collar hardly so 

 dark except a faint cross-stripe, the tuft at the back very 

 obscure ; fascicles smoky-white ; abdomen smoky-brown with 

 a purple tinge, lateral and anal tufts purplish-brown. Fore 

 wings rather narrow, costa straight to near the apex, 

 where it is slightly rounded ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin oblique, gently curved ; dorsal margin straight ; 

 colour dark red-brown with a purple or coppery tinge ; 

 basal line suggested by a short black distinct streak from 

 the costa ; first line also strongly marked on the costa by 

 an elongated black spot, but continued across the wing as 

 a very faint double angulated purple-brovvu thread ; second 

 line equally faint, composed of a series of hardly perceptible 

 double curves, which bend far back at the costal margin, to 

 a third black spot over the reniform stigma ; subterminal 

 line hardly distinguishable as a series of minute pale clouds, 

 but in some individuals edged inwardly by cloudy brown 

 spots ; its costal extremity, however, is always conspicuous 

 as a sharply marked wedge-shaped oblique black spot, this 

 being the strongest marking on the wing ; orbicular stigma 

 faintly smoky-brown, ringed with the paler ground colour ; 

 reniform stigma more distinct, smoky-black, darkest at the 

 base, also edged with pale ground colour, and outside this 

 with dark red-brown ; touching it is a widely angulated 

 red-brown or black-brown central shade which crosses the 

 wing; cilia pale purplish-brown, intersected with paler. 

 Hind wings rather glistening smoky-brown, slightly paler 



