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moderately tufted with scales, but more strongly so on the 

 top, pale brown or whitish-brown ; thorax similar, very 

 smooth, the long collar-scales laid back to the general sur- 

 face, no crests, but very faintly collected tufts at the back ; 

 fascicles expanded, dirty white ; abdomen whitish-brown 

 with a powdered appearance from the abundance of short 

 superficial white hair-scales, and without crests ; lateral 

 tufts inconspicuous ; anal tuft narrow. Fore wings in some 

 degree triangular ; costa nearly straight ; apex angulated 

 and rather pointed ; hind margin oblique and faintly 

 rounded ; dorsal margin straight ; colour yellow-brown, 

 brownish drab, or tawny ; no basal line, but the first line 

 placed rather near the base, most obscure, partial, or almost 

 obliterated, when visible much angulated, smoky-brown ; 

 second line a series of faint smoky-brown crescents edged 

 outwardly by a narrow line of the pale ground-colour ; beyond 

 this the whole hind-marginal space is occupied by a broad 

 cloud of darker or redder brown or smoky-brown, or else a 

 broad band of the same occupies the space between the 

 edging of the second line and the subterminal line, which 

 then is visible as a series of faint smoky crescents ; orbicular 

 stigma sometimes indicated by a faint smoky cloud or cloudy 

 spot, or by a large pale spot hardly margined with darker ; 

 reniform stigma hardly more distinct, but usually enclosing 

 a rather crescent-shaped or ovate black-brown or red-brown 

 spot, very often a reddish cloud surrounds the stigmata, and 

 sometimes a slender reddish transverse thread or two repre- 

 sent the central shade ; cilia concolorous. Hind wings broad, 

 rounded, smoky-white, with the nervures and a large central 

 spot cloudy-black ; along the hind margin is a broad ill- 

 defined but conspicuous smoky-black cloud or band ; cilia 

 white shaded with brown. Female rather stouter but closely 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings brownish-white or yellowish- 

 white with very conspicuous markings ; the orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata and a broad band before the hind margin 



