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brown at the sides, pale grey in front ; head whitish or pale 

 brown, dusted with grey, and often with one or two darker 

 blotches on the forehead, front of the collar broadly and con- 

 spicuously ashy-brown, striped with brighter brown, dark 

 purple, purple-brown, or umbreous ; thorax broad and robust, 

 of some shade of pale or dark brown, or dull purple-brown, 

 agreeing with the colour of the fore wings ; at the back is a 

 small but well-marked tuft or minute crest ; fascicles large. 

 broad, and spreading, dirty white ; abdomen broad and stout, 

 decidedly flattened, dull yellow dusted with black, and covered 

 with long loose smoky-grey or yellowish hair-scales ; lateral 

 and anal tufts similar, the latter sometimes with a black 

 cloud in the middle. Fore wings stout and strong, elongated, 

 broad beyond the middle, and more ovate than in the other 

 species of the genus ; costa rounded ; apex very blunt, but 

 hardly angulated ; hind margin below it perpendicular, then 

 rounded off to the anal angle, but full and almost protuberant ; 

 dorsal margin gently curved ; colour dull pale brown, red- 

 brown, umbreous, or dark purple brown, sometimes smooth 

 and unicolorous, but usually mottled or clouded with darker 

 brown or blackish ; always and everywhere variable, and the 

 variations taking, usually, similar lines. When visible the 

 markings follow the general rule — basal line double, abbre- 

 viated, red-brown or black-brown ; lirst line nearly per- 

 pendicular, double, blackish, enclosing a slender paler stripe ; 

 second line also rather perpendicular, slender, bent and 

 bluntly angulated, much indented, brown or black, followed 

 by one or two narrow pale brown stripes ; on the costa before 

 the apex is a sharply marked black triangle, from outside 

 which runs the slender pale undulating subterminal line ; 

 orbicular stigma rather large, edged witli dark brown, often 

 conspicuously pale yellowish, light brown, or pale grey, but 

 equally often of the ground colour, whatever that may be ; 

 reniform stigma large, edged with black or yellow, and often 

 containing, or even tilled up by, a blackish cloud, which, in 

 some, otherwise almost unicolorout-, specimens ib very con- 



