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brown or brownish-white ; an oblique white streak from the 

 apex edges a black elongated streak upon the disk ; hind 

 wings dusky white. 



Antennas of the male short and very slender, faintly 

 ciliated, pale brown annulated with white ; palpi long, 

 slender, pointed and porrected, brown ; eyes brown ; head 

 dirty white ; thorax narrow and weak, pale brown ; abdomen 

 very slender and small, brownish-white ; on the basal segment 

 is a dorsal brown spot ; anal tuft small. Fore wings nar- 

 rowly oblong ; costa gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin below it truncate and hardly oblique, but rather 

 bent below the middle and thence curved off round the anal 

 angle ; dorsal margin straight ; colour brownish-white, 

 clouded along the costal and hind margins with umbreous ; 

 basal line suggested by a deep black streak ; first line oblique, 

 much indented and thickened at the angles, faintly black ; 

 second line also black, very slender and faint, its upper por- 

 tion appearing to form the margin of a large flatly triangular 

 umbreous blotch which lies along the costa and approaches 

 the apex ; outside this is a stripe of the whitish ground 

 colour, obliquely from near the middle of the dorsal margin, 

 straight to the apex of the wing ; on the outer side of this 

 stripe are two or three black dots and an extremely faint, 

 irregular, whitish subterminal line ; reniform stigma in- 

 dicated by a small black streak or cloud, sometimes wedge- 

 shaped ; hind margin pale umbreous, edged with black dots, 

 and outside them with a fine white line ; costal margin, 

 beyond the middle, minutely dotted with brownish-white ; 

 cilia pale brown, faintly crenulated. Hind wings elongated 

 toward the apex, shortened toward the anal angle ; the hind 

 margin sinuous ; colour smoky white with a blackish central 

 spot ; cilia white. Female extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown ; reniform 

 stigma indicated by a black cloud ; in the apex is a white 

 cloud preceded by white dots. Hind wings smoky-white 

 central spot elongated, black ; beyond it the surface to the 



