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almost perpendicular, curved off below the middle, but the 

 anal angle rather full ; dorsal margin straight ; colour hoary 

 golden-brown, or pale chocolate with a purplish sheen, some- 

 times more ashy toward the costa ; basal line oblique, forming 

 the outer edge of a black-brown basal blotch ; first line also 

 oblique, lying outward from the costa to the dorsal margin, 

 slightly angulated, purplish-white, and forming the inner 

 edge of a rich velvety chocolate transverse stripe; just 

 beyond this, on the dorsal margin, but placed perpendicularly, 

 is a much broader velvety-chocolate transverse stripe, the 

 outer edge of which is the second line, also perpendicular and 

 rather sinuous ; immediately outside this is a similar trian- 

 gular blotch from the costa, and the portion of the second 

 line separating them is white and rather broadened at the 

 margin ; similarly the outer edge of this costal blotch is 

 nearly white, and in it are two white costal dots ; subterminal 

 line only indicated by a pale shading or clouding of yellowish- 

 brown passing through the pale chocolate area ; stigmata 

 hardly perceptible, the orbicular suggested by a small 

 chocolate dot or dash, the reniform by a faintly paler cloud 

 in the second dark stripe ; extreme hind margin edged by an 

 undulating line, although the ashy-brown cilia are not crenu- 

 lated. Hind wings much rounded ; dark smoky-brown 

 shaded with long pale hair-scales from the base to the middle 

 and the anal angle ; remaining portion bright ochreous- 

 yellow ; a partial and broken black-brown band beyond the 

 middle is thickest and blackest in its middle area and inter- 

 rupted above it ; beyond this is a series of dark brown clouds 

 along the hind margin, the colour from them running up 

 each nervure and also outwardly into the cilia, which other- 

 wise are white or pale yellow, and extend along the dorsal 

 margin. Female very similar but stouter, and often with the 

 velvety chocolate stripes of the fore wings more strongly 

 marked. 



Underside of all the wings rich orange-yellow ; the fore 

 wings having the reniform stigma black, followed by a 



