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whitish-brown, faintly barred twice with darker brown ; 

 shoulder-lappets purplish-brown shaded with blackish, which 

 forms a submarginal line on the upper side ; remainder of the 

 thorax purplish-brown, with narrow top and back crests, 

 which are shaded with orange-brown ; fascicles small,, whitish, 

 shaded to brownish at the tips ; abdomen glossy, pale ashy- 

 brown with a greyer tinge Ijehind, lateral and anal tufts 

 browner. Fore wings rather narrow, with the costa very 

 gently rounded ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 slightly oblique and rounded off below the middle, though 

 the anal angle is rather full ; dorsal margin faintly hollowed 

 and gracefully curved ; colour shining dark slate-grey or 

 purple-grey ; basal line limited to two deep black streaks, 

 which are closely followed by the parallel edges of two cloudy 

 black blotches ; first line black, duplicated, formed into three 

 double scallops ; second line very slender, scalloped through- 

 out, curved at the costa, then straight to the middle, bent in 

 and curved to the dorsal margin, and followed throughout by 

 a very clear parallel black shade, outside which is a row of 

 black dots ; beyond this line on the costa is a deep black 

 triangle, sometimes faintly divided, from it arises a slender, 

 cloudy, blackish shade, which edges the yellow subterminal 

 line, beyond this the hind marginal region is clouded with 

 darker purplish-grey ; orbicular stigma altered into a broad 

 yellow triangle extending along the middle of the subcostal 

 resrion : below and on each side of it the discal cell is filled 

 up with deep black, which is shaded off below the median 

 nervure. almost concealing a very small black-edged claviform 

 stigma — this large black mark being the one conspicuous 

 marking of the wing ; reniform stigma rather obscure, red- 

 dish-yellow clouded with blackish lines and edged on each 

 side with black ; hind margin dotted with minute lunules, and 

 edged with yellowish ; cilia purple-grey. Hind wings broad 

 and ample; hind margin undulating ; colour shining whitish, 

 with brown nervures, and clouded along the costal and hind 

 margins with grey-brown, the hind marginal clouding, how- 



