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rather rough ; thorax slender, roughened vvitli loose scales, 

 light or dark brown ; abdomen similar, slender, a narrow 

 darker brown bar across each segment ; lateral tufts minute, 

 anal tuft narrow. Fore wings moderately ample, elongated ; 

 costa gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 crenulated, oblique, and gently curved ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight, ciliated; ground colour pale brown, smoky-brown, 

 or whitish-brown ; first line thick, black, curved, and partly- 

 duplicated ; followed by an oblique cloudy-brown central 

 shade, which forms a large brown costal blotch, and encloses 

 a small black discal streak ; second line thick, black, stiff- 

 looking, and without indentations, disposed in two or three 

 large step-like angles ; immediately outside it is usually a 

 parallel light brown line ; outside this is a very irregular series 

 of black or black-brown clouds, or the whole outer surface is 

 clouded with brown ; through it runs an excessively rippled and 

 angulated white or pale brown subterminal line ; extreme hind 

 margin edged and dotted with black ; cilia pale brown. Hind 

 wings broad, rounded, strongly crenulated, similar in colour 

 to the fore wings ; central spot small, brown ; before it is a 

 partial cloudy brown transverse line; beyond it a more definite, 

 curved, and somewhat undulating black-brown line, edged 

 outside with white, and followed by a fainter parallel reddish - 

 brown shade ; beyond this is a much angulated and indented 

 black-brown cloudy stripe, which also is faintly edged with 

 white, and followed by a cloudy stripe of fulvous dusting ; ex- 

 treme hind margin edged with black lunules ; cilia pale brown. 

 Female stouter ; with simple antennse ; wings often more 

 clouded with white, or with grey dusting, but the markings 

 usually more definite ; otherwise similar. 



Undersides of all the wings light brown, with smoky indi- 

 cations of the transverse lines, and of the markings generally, 

 all spread and blurred ; basal portion and middle of the fore 

 wings more clouded with smoke colour. Body and legs light 

 brown. In the male a long tuft of hair-scales on the third 

 pair of legs lies usually closely pressed to the leg. 



