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ochreous-brown ; eyes prominent, dull deep black ; head 

 tufted, tawny-brown ; collar similar ; remainder of thorax 

 narrow, smooth, hoary-brown dotted with dark brown, the 

 scales faintly divided at the back ; fascicles very small, white ; 

 abdomen slender, ashy-brown, abundantly dusted with red- 

 brown ; lateral tufts hardly perceptible ; anal tuft narrow 

 and pointed. Fore wings somewhat triangular, the base very 

 narrow ; costa gently curved, apex falcate and sharply pointed ; 

 immediately below it the hind margin is deeply and smoothly 

 excavated and filled out to a blunt angle in the middle, then 

 again rather concave to the anal angle; dorsal margin gently 

 curved ; colour hoary-brown, paler at the base, shading off 

 toward the hind margin to chocolate, and dusted with the 

 same ; no basal line ; first line conspicuous, double, oblique, 

 and very straight to near the costa, where it is suddenly bent 

 back, dark chocolate ; second line in some degree parallel with 

 it, direct and then bent, double or rather consisting of a distinct 

 pale brown line edged on either side sharply with chocolate, 

 which shades off a little outwardly ; beyond this the apical 

 and middle portions of the hind-marginal areas are clouded, 

 especially between the nervures, with dull chocolate, through 

 which a slender, meandering, faintly white subterminal line 

 endeavours to make its way, but often is hardly distinguishable ; 

 apex darker brown or nearly black; in the hollow below it is 

 the richest shade of chocolate ; half way between the first 

 and second lines, in the discal cell, are two perpendicularly 

 placed black dots; cilia concolorous. Hind wings rounded 

 and rather long, dusky white dusted with brown, especially 

 so toward the dorsal margin ; from this margin, above the 

 anal angle, arise two closely parallel brown lines enclosing a 

 slender yellowish-white transverse stripe which does not fully 

 cross the wing ; nearer the hind margin is a very faint waved 

 whitish transverse line ; cilia pale grey-brown, intersected by 

 a brown line. Female very similar, bocty a little stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellowish-brown shading 

 off to rich orange-brown in the apical region ; the black dots 



