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at the back is a short broad ridge or crest tipped above with 

 white, below with black ; abdomen slender, greyish-white 

 dusted with brown and barred across the first three segments 

 with black, upon the rest with grey ; the first black bar has 

 the scales partially raised and faintly crested ; lateral and 

 anal tufts whitish-brown. Fore wings elongated and very 

 ample ; costa faintly arched throughout ; apex rounded ; 

 hind margin oblique and very gently curved ; dorsal mai'gin 

 rather full and densely ciliated with whitish hair-scales which 

 towards the base of the wing are raised ; white powdered all 

 over with grey dusting ; first line broken, much curved^ 

 forming a black spot on the costa, another on the median 

 nervure, and a long black streak on the dorsal margin which 

 runs into the base ; second line very oblique, curved and re- 

 curved, black, disposed in crescents with a deep black point 

 running out on each nervure ; between these lines is a central 

 shade, parallel with the first but nearly uniting near the 

 dorsal margin with the second, and thence formed into an 

 angulated black streak, otherwise most distinctly visible as a 

 black spot on the costa ; in it is the discal spot, rather ovate 

 or elongated, black ; near the hind margin is a white sub- 

 terminal line disposed in crescents, within which, on the 

 inner side, are small smoky-black clouds ; beyond this line 

 the hind-marginal region is more thickly dusted with dark 

 grey ; extreme margin dotted with black ; cilia mixed 

 smoky-grey and white. Hind wings of the same colour and 

 similarly dusted ; central spot lunate, small and black ; before 

 it is a much clouded transverse brown-grey shade ; beyond it 

 a slender black transverse line disposed in crescents with 

 sharp points, and faintly edged outwardly by a band of 

 brownish dusting; nearer the hind margin is a more cloudy- 

 black parallel line disposed in very flat obscure crescents, and 

 edged outwardly with a white line ; hind margin edged with 

 short deep black streaks ; cilia brownish-white. Female 

 larger and stouter, with simple antennae, and the transverse 



