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and into reddish-black on the hinder, but the broad lateral 

 and narrower anal tufts are yellowish-drab. Fore wings 

 stout and strong, much elongated, straight and rather 

 narrow ; costa almost straight to the apex, which is bluntly 

 rounded; hind margin oblique, very little curved, but 

 hollowed toward the anal angle and regularly crenulated ; 

 dorsal margin straight ; colour pale drab, clouded, especially 

 in the middle area, with black ; basal line suggested by a 

 minute black streak on the costa, and another on the median 

 nervure ; first line a faint series of very long smoky-brown 

 angles ; second line similar, almost equally obscure, except 

 that it is made noticeable by black points on the nervures ; 

 a series of whitish angulated streaks and elongated clouds 

 suggests a faint subterminal line, at the back of which, in 

 the middle, are two slender deep black arrow-heads pointing 

 inwards, and elsewhere a few cloudy-brown streaks ; this is 

 followed by similar clouds along the hind margin ; orbicular 

 stigma large, elongated, upright, faintly edged with black, 

 and containing a sort of smoky-brown frame or internal 

 edging, which is often constricted, and sometimes forms itself 

 into three blackish rings placed perpendicularly; reniform 

 stigma large, edged also with black, and the lower portion 

 tilled in with the same, the middle containing a pale drab 

 spot edged with black ; sometimes the hinder edge of this 

 stigma is bordered by a smoky-black cloud which throws off 

 short points backward ; middle portion of the dorsal region 

 more particularly clouded with smoky-black than the rest of 

 the centre of the wing, or the costal region similarly darkened ; 

 cilia pale umbreous, dashed and edged with black. Hind 

 wings broad and ample, apex rather produced ; hind margin 

 slightly hollowed below it, thence sinuous and crenulated but 

 not much curved ; colour smoky-brown with a purplish gloss, 

 base paler, nervures rather darker ; central spot large, smoky- 

 black ; extreme hind margin slenderly edged with whitish 

 crescent-like clouds, and the adjacent cilia white ; dorsal 

 margin and cilia reddish-brown. Female very similar., the 



