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first line double ; second single, but followed by large brown- 

 black blotclies ; hind wings white, rippled towards the anal 

 angle with brown or black. 



^ Antenna) of the male shortly ciliated with bristles, in tufts 

 simulating fine pectinations, brown, the shaft dotted with 

 white; palpi very small, blunt, red-brown; tongue well 

 developed ; head rough, white, mottled with purple-brown ; 

 thorax narrow, rather rough, pale-brown, dusted in front and 

 behind with white ; abdomen slender, dusky white, dusted 

 with purple-brown, and barred with pale brown. Fore wino-s 

 moderately ample ; costa arched at the base and faintly so 

 throughout ; apex rounded ■ hind margin gently curved, not 

 very oblique ; dorsal margin rather full and strongly ciliated ; 

 colour smoky-white strongly tinged with dull brown, more' 

 smoky in the basal and costal regions ; first line curved, 

 composed of black dusting ; on its inner edge is a parallel 

 smoky-brown clouded stripe; second line more distinct 

 moderately oblique and very little indented, black, edged 

 outwardly with pale brown, and followed by two large smoky- 

 brown cloudy spots, one above the middle, squared, the 

 other close to the costa; beyond these is an irregular 

 sinuous white or white-brown subterminal line, edo-gd on 

 both sides with dull brown clouding; discal spot a minute 

 black streak, closely followed by another, longer, angulated 

 perpendicular streak, or line, faintly representing the ''central 

 shade ; hind margin minutely dotted with brown or black • 

 cilia dull pale brown, often tipped with white. Hind wino-s 

 broad, rounded behind, and strongly crenulated ; dusky whit'l 

 dusted with dull brown ; from the dorsal margin are three 

 partial brown or black transverse lines, two of them before 

 the middle and short, the third beyond, more curved and 

 reaching two-thirds across the wing; this last is edged by a 

 pale brown stripe of the same extent; along the hind margin 

 IS a similar cloudy brown stripe, broken up by dull white 

 spots or angles, and edged at the extreme hind margin by a 

 brown line which undulates, following accurately the edges 



