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Antennge of the male rather shortly pectinated with solid, 

 densely ciliated teeth which taper off at three-fourths the 

 length leaving the apical fourth threadlike, but notched, 

 purple-brown ; palpi very short, drooping, dark umbreous ; 

 tongue rather small, face smooth, black-brown, edged by a 

 deep channel beneath the antennae ; head rough, and, with a 

 ridge at its back, light brown ; collar similar but barred in 

 front with black, in the middle and at the edge with 

 umbreous ; rest of the thorax brownish-drab, not very rough ; 

 abdomen slender, smooth, pale brown, faintly barred on each 

 segment with umbreous ; lateral tufts small ; anal tuft 

 slender. Fore wings elongated ; costa very gently arched, 

 rather more so before the apex, which is bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin gently rounded and strongly crenulated ; dorsal 

 margin straight, ciliated ; colour pale wainscot-brown, faintly 

 dusted with purple-brown ; costa clouded with rich umbreous; 

 first line often incomplete, double, very oblique but faintly 

 bent back to the costa, umbreous ; second line also umbreous, 

 undulating, unusually oblique ; arising in the middle of the 

 dorsal margin it appears to run into the hind margin below 

 the apex, but this is deceptive, since it really bends sharply 

 back as a very faint thread and proceeds to the costa ; from 

 its middle and along its apparent extension to the hind 

 margin it forms the upper edge of a long constricted dark 

 umbreous blotch, broadest at the hind margin ; this blotch is 

 continued also to the dorsal margin, but only as a faint soft 

 brown stripe ; discal spot small, black ; rest of the hind 

 marginal region faintly dappled with purplish-brown clouds ; 

 extreme margin dotted with black between the crenulations ; 

 cilia purplish-brown. Hind wings moderately broad, the 

 hind margin deeply indented or scalloped and throwing out 

 several sharply-pointed crenulations ; pale wainscot-brown, 

 the basal portion stippled with fine transverse umbreous 

 lines ; the middle is crossed by a cloudy slender stripe of the 

 same or darker colour, shaded off and immediately followed 

 by a broad black-brown band, edged inwardly by a line of 



