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faintly barred with white ; palpi very long, porrected, slender, 

 straight, pale brown ; head and thorax dull pale brown ; 

 abdomen whitish-brown. Fore wings long and rather narrow ; 

 costa very slightly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind 

 margin curved very fully round the anal angle, the curve 

 continued on the dorsal margin ; colour dull j^ale brown, 

 dusted with grey-brown or dull umbreous, faintly streaked 

 longitudinally with darker brown lines between the nervures, 

 and clouded with the same toward the costa; two or three, or 

 more, carelessly scattered umbreous dots lie between the base 

 and the discal spot, which also is similar but a little more 

 distinct ; beyond it is a very oblique transverse line of small 

 smoky brown clouds, placed not far from the hind margin ; 

 beyond this line the nervures are streaked with whitish- 

 brown ; cilia shining pale brown, rather short. Hind wings 

 also long and narrow ; very flatly rounded behind ; white, 

 faintly tinted with brown toward the apex, and having a 

 transverse row of smoky brown cloudy dots, or dashes, before 

 the hind margin; cilia short, white. Female very different, 

 often more than double the size ; thorax and abdomen 

 stouter, and the latter longer ; fore wings much broader as 

 well as longer, and running to a long point at the apex, with 

 an extremely oblique hind margin rounded off about the 

 anal angle ; pale reddish-brown or wainscot-brown, usual]}' 

 devoid of markings, or with a longitudinal darker brown 

 shade above the middle. Hind wings long and large, though 

 not very broad, pure white. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky brown, with the 

 hind margin yellow-brown, and the discal spot j'ellowish- 

 white ; hind wings white, the male showing the slender 

 transverse line as on the upper side. Bod}' pale brown, legs 

 brownish-white. 



Variable in both sexes in the colour and shading of the 

 fore wings ; in the male to pale reddish-brown, with a rich 

 dark umbreous, or black -brown, ill-defined longitudinal stripe 

 below the costa, from one-third to one-half the breadth of 



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