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faintly edged with white ; top aud back crests distiuct, edged 

 with pale purplish ; fascicles smoky-brown ; abdomen smoky- 

 brown, the basal portion rather covered with long similar 

 scales ; lateral and anal tufts brighter brown. Fore wings 

 broad, especially so behind ; costa rounded, apex very bluntly 

 angulated, almost rounded ; hind margin very full, rather 

 perpendicular but rounded off to the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin very faintly rounded ; colour smoky-umbreous with a 

 distinct purplish or reddish gloss ; basal line limited to two 

 short black streaks ; first line black, thickened into a black 

 spot on the costa and again below the median nervure, very 

 indistinct toward the dorsal margin ; second line slender, 

 obscurely blackish, slightly curved but very direct, almost 

 immediately followed by a similar ]iarallel line, the interme- 

 diate space being rather pale but divided by dark lines on the 

 nervures ; half way between this second line and the hind 

 margin is a smoky-black transverse shade, abruptly and very 

 irregularly cut off behind by a much angulated and undu- 

 lated subterminal line, beyond which the hind marginal space 

 is of the general colour ; orbicular and reniform stigmata of 

 the ground colour, rendered visible by two large rhomboidal 

 black blotches, which occupy the remaining spaces in the 

 discal cell before aud between them ; below these is a smoky- 

 black central shade crossing the wing ; between the first 

 and second lines are two more black spots in the costa, and 

 beyond them four yellow costal dots, followed toward the 

 apex of the wing by a yellowish streak ; extreme hind margin 

 edged by an undulating blackish line and outside it a very faint 

 yellowish thread ; cilia dark brown. Hind wings unicolorous 

 dark smoky-brown ; cilia hardly paler. Female rather stouter, 

 with simple autenUcC ; otherwise hardly to be distinguished. 



Underside of the fore wings dark grey-brown with a golden 

 or reddish gloss ; costal region paler, with a black bar beyond 

 the middle ; hind margin abruptly tinged with reddish ; 

 hind wings whitish dusted with gre}^, and toward the costa 

 strongly sprinkled with purplish-red ; beyond the middle is 



