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reticulated, black, the lashes black and also curled; head 

 densely covered with scales, which take the form of prominent 

 pointed tufts, whitish-brown; collar erect or even curved 

 forward in a strong ridge in the middle, whitish-brown 

 slenderly barred with umbreous ; rest of thorax of the same 

 colour, with a few scattered black dots on each side; top 

 crest ridged, divided, thrusting the collar forward; back 

 crest small and flattened ; shoulders squared, the outer edges 

 of the lappets being prominent ; fascicles abundant, long and 

 curved, white; abdomen pale brown, with a distinct erect 

 black crest on the dorsal ridge of its third segment, and 

 sometimes a smaller one on the following, or black-brown 

 spots on the remainder ; lateral tufts small ; anal tuft squared 

 and tinged with yellow. Fore wings narrow throughout; 

 costa faintly curved ; apex bluntly squared ; hind margin 

 elbowed, crenulated, a little contracted ; dorsal margin un- 

 usually straight; colour pale brownish-drab or brownish- 

 buff, tinged along the dorsal half with rusty-brown or 

 occasionally with blackish clouding; nervures shaded or 

 dotted with red-brown ; markings absent or hardly percep- 

 tible, when present pairs of brown dots on the subdorsal and 

 median nervures are connected by long, slender, deeply angu- 

 lated streaks, forming an obscure first line, while the second 

 line is rather more clearly indicated in a curved series of 

 pairs of black-brown dots ; beyond this is a series of small 

 wedge-shaped fulvous clouds, and along the hind margin 

 another series intermingled with short black-brown streaks ; 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata suggested by pale unmargined 

 clouds, between which, and below, is a partial central cloud 

 of reddish-umbreous above and blacker below, edged as to its 

 lower portion by a pale drab spot; costa faintly dotted with 

 small dark and pale cloudy spots ; cilia yellowish-drab dashed 

 with fulvous. Hind wings rather ample; flatly rounded 

 behind but hollowed below the apex ; smoky-brown shading 

 paler to the base and shining with a golden or purple gloss ; 

 cilia brownish-white. Female accurately similar. 



