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pointed; dark red-brown or purple-brown, sometimes marbled 

 or banded behind with paler. Hind wings black-brown, with 

 pale purple cilia. 



Antennae of the male simple, cylindrical, minutely cili- 

 ated, red-brown ; palpi short, excessively tufted, dark purple - 

 brown ; eyes leaden-black, their lashes dark brown ; head 

 strongly tufted, dark purple-brown, dusted with white ; 

 thorax similar, smooth, minutely and flatly tufted at the 

 back ; fascicles pale smoke colour, tinged with purple 

 abdomen flattened and dilated, purple-brown dusted with 

 black ; lateral and anal tufts widely flattened. Fore wings 

 not very broad, even in width ; costa very nearly straight ; 

 apex rather squarely yet sharply angulated ; hind margin 

 beneath it straight or faintly hollowed, filled out in the 

 middle, and below this crenulated and rounded off; dorsal 

 margin faintly rounded ; colour deep dark purplish-chestnut 

 or purple-red, varying to red-black ; surface glossy, mark- 

 ings hardly perceptible except by the aid of a lens ; basal 

 line arising from a white dot on the costa, obscurely angu- 

 lated and edged with black ; first line also from a white 

 costal dot but only perceptible as an angulated red shade 

 edged with purple-brown ; second line hardly more distinct, 

 much angulated but erect and bent outward in the middle, 

 red-brown ; subterminal line sometimes visible as a row of 

 small red-brown clots in a stripe of paler ground colour which 

 often precedes the hind margin ; costa beyond the middle 

 dotted with minute oblique white streaks ; cilia purple- 

 brown, dotted with pale red, and having an orange-yellow 

 faint line along their base. Hind wings rather small, with 

 a sinuous hind margin ; colour smoky-black with a purple- 

 red gloss ; cilia orange-red shot and tipped with white. 

 Female hardly distinguishable. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black with the costal 

 and broad hind-marginal regions purple-red dusted with black. 

 Hind wings smoky-white, dusted with black and broadly 

 clouded along the costal region with purple-red ; central 



