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Antennas of the male short and rather evenly thick, 

 faintly serrated and ciliated, black-brown ; palpi short and 

 curled up, but their shape quite hidden by an abundance of 

 stiff black hairs pointing forwards and upwards, grey-black ; 

 head and thorax very rough with loose erect hair-scales 

 mixed with hairs, black-brown, the latter narrow ; abdomen 

 almost as thick as the thorax, yet not stout, very even in 

 breadth, black, but covered with fine downy grey-brown 

 hairs ; anal tuft narrow, pale brown mixed with grey-black. 

 Fore wings rather long, oblong-trigonate, broad behind ; 

 costa almost straight or very faintly arched ; apex bluntly 

 rounded ; hind margin very gently curved, hardly oblique, 

 and the anal angle prominent ; dorsal margin straight ; dull 

 tawny-brown, dusted with black, and on emergence with 

 blue-black, which last appears to be shaken off in flight ; 

 first line oblique, thick, direct yet much indented, black ; 

 second line obscure, rather erect, much indented, black 

 shaded off inwardly; subterminal line nearly parallel with it, 

 Out obscure, pale brown or whitish-brown, inwardly edged 

 with small cloudy black triangular spots, which often, how- 

 ever are but partially represented ; reniform stigma indicated 

 by an ovate black spot with a bluish centre ; joined to it on 

 the inner side is a triangular white costal blotch or spot ; 

 beyond this, near the apex of the wing, are often two smaller 

 cloudy white spots ; cilia bluish-black dashed with white. 

 Hind wings rather elongated and narrow, the costal margin 

 more straight than usual and the apex more angulated, but 

 rounded behind, orange-fulvous with a large brown-black 

 squared blotch occupying the dorsal half of the wing to 

 beyond the middle, where it often unites with a similar 

 stripe crossing the wing from the costa ; along the hind 

 margin is an irregular indented black stripe ; cilia similar, 

 shaded and dashed with yellowish-white. Antennas of the 

 female simple and more slender ; fore wings a very little 

 narrower and usually having less black dusting ; abdomen 

 decidedly thicker and very blunt. 



