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of the, abdomen covered with long similar hair-scales ; 

 hinder portion yellow-drab clouded with tawny-red, and 

 down the middle of the back with black; lateral tufts 

 small; anal tuft rather compressed. Fore wings very 

 long, rather narrow and straight; costa hardly curved; 

 apex bluntly pointed; hind margin very oblique, faintly 

 curved but decidedly crenulated; dorsal margin straight; 

 colour yellowish-white at the base, shading to pale yellow- 

 drab or reddish-drab; dorsal half of the wing strongly 

 clouded and shaded with purple-red or red-black, its 

 central portion becoming often almost black; basal line 

 just hinted-at by two or three black-brown dots; first line 

 disposed in a double or triple series of extraordinarily long 

 angles so obscure as to be only visible through a lens when 

 looking toward the base of the wing ; position of the second 

 line suggested by three or four black points and dots in the 

 darker area of the wing; subterminal line an incomplete 

 series of pale drab angles or arrow-heads which divides the 

 purple-red clouding toward the hind margin; orbicular 

 stigma only faintly indicated by three reddish-brown dots 

 placed in an oblique line and surrounded by a pale area ; 

 reniform stigma rather more distinct, large, upright, partly 

 edged with black, containing a red-brown cloud and above it 

 an upright yellowish-white streak edged on each side with 

 red-brown ; outside it arises a long black streak which points 

 and extends straight to the subterminal line; underneath 

 the shadowy orbicular stigma is an elongated black blotch 

 or streak which varies greatly in size and distinctness; 

 costal margin beyond the middle dotted with white ; cilia 

 drab, dashed and tipped with black. Hind wings ample, 

 rather pointed at the apex, hind margin faintly hollowed 

 below it, thence sinuous ; colour smoky-brown with a strong 

 reddish flush and the dorsal margin much tinged with brick- 

 red ; central spot obscure, smoky-black ; cilia white shaded 

 with brown. Female, except that the antennae are quite 

 threadlike, very closely similar. 



