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Antenna3 of the male simple, naked, light brown at the 

 base, darker beyond ; palpi chesnut-brown at the sides, pale 

 brown in front ; head light purplish-brown, with the face 

 whitish-brown ; collar upraised, very pale brown, edged with 

 brighter brown, within which is a slender white bar ; re- 

 mainder of the thorax light purplish-brown, raised into a 

 small crest close behind the collar and into another at the 

 back ; fascicles very short, smoky-white ; abdomen whitish- 

 brown, the basal segments covered with loose tufts of smoky- 

 white scales ; lateral and anal tufts reddish. Fore wino's 

 rather broad behind ; costa very faintly curved ; apex rounded ; 

 hind margin nearly perpendicular and but little curved ; 

 dorsal margin long and straight ; colour pale purplish-brown 

 or purplish-drab, often with a reddish flush, finely dusted or 

 clouded with brown and a few black atoms ; basal line com- 

 posed of two deejD black spots connected by a small black dot, 

 followed by parallel brown shades, and the lower by a larger 

 black-brown blotch below the median nervure ; first line deep 

 blaciv, thick and deeply angulated near the costa, more slender 

 oblique, and again angulated aliove the dorsal margin, a 

 slender brown parallel shade is divided from it by a pale 

 edging; second line very perpendicular, and but slightly 

 curved, formed of a series of slender black crescents followed 

 by a parallel pale line, and then, usually, by one or two rows 

 of minute black dots placed on nervures ; subterminal line a 

 slender waved umbreous shade, edged outwardly with pale 

 yellowish, and originating on the costa in a conspicuoas deep 

 black wedge-shaped spot before the apex ; midway between 

 the basal and first lines is often a triangular black dot on the 

 median nervure ; between the first line and the orbicular 

 stigma is a conspicuous dark chestnut blotch edged on each 

 side with black ; between the orbicular and reniform 

 stigmata the whole space is occupied by another, squared, 

 dark chestnut blotch, edged with black ; above these two is, 

 in each case, a black costal spot ; orbicular stigma whitish- 

 brown edged with whiter, except the upper portion whicli 



