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pinkish-crimson with two black bands, the inner shortly- 

 bent ; cilia white. 



Antennas of the male long and slender, minutely ciliated, 

 brown ; palpi rather short and thick, blackish-brown tipped 

 with white ; eyes black-brown ; head whitish-grey with flat 

 protruding scales ; thorax whitish-grey, dusted with darker, 

 the collar with a broad light-brown bar across the front, the 

 shoulder-lappets and a broad back-crest edged with black- 

 brown ; abdomen rather downy, pale grey, the dorsal crest 

 obscure or compressed, tinged with smoky-brown ; lateral 

 tufts small ; anal tuft rather long, compressed laterally, 

 tinged with brown. Fore wings ample ; costa very gently 

 arched ; apex squarely angulated ; hind margin but slightly 

 crenulated, curved and full ; dorsal margin faintly hollowed ; 

 pale slate-grey with faint transverse shadings of pale brown ; 

 basal line black, incomplete, forming two bends from the 

 costa ; first line repeatedly and deeply angulated, duplicated, 

 formed of black and brown atoms, but the costal half of the 

 outer duplicate deep black ; second line black, deeply angu- 

 lated, indeed straggling into very long deep black angles above 

 the middle ; subterminal line a regularly angulated shade of 

 very pale grey bounded inwardly by a parallel shade of light 

 brown atoms, and outwardly by a clouding of dust of darker 

 grey and brown, through which the nervures are blackened ; 

 reniform stigma large, defined by a regular black edging 

 inwardly and an irregular angulated one outwardly, and 

 containing a smaller, more distinctly black-margined, similar 

 marking ; below this is a pale spot with a slender black 

 margin which unites with, and opens, one of the angles of 

 the second line ; hind margin spotted between the crenula- 

 tions with small black crescents ; cilia grey. Hind wings 

 broad, rounded and crenulated ; pinkish crimson, with the 

 usual two black bands, the inner short, broad and rounded 

 like a head, close to the costa, then narrowed to a thick neck, 

 below which it leads abruptly in from a broad round shoulder, 

 and is suddenly cut off half-way to the dorsal margin ; outer 



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