reddish-brown or dull pale brown, often tino-ed with smoky- 

 brown ; base of the collar dotted with darker brown ; at the 

 back of the thorax is a small obscure crest or tuft of drawn- 

 together scales, usually tipped with chestnut ; fascicles pale 

 smoky-grey or smokj^-white ; abdomen glossy, smoky-grey ; 

 lateral tufts small, anal tuft very large, all pale chocolate-red. 

 Fore wings rather short and truncate, broad behind ; costa 

 regularly curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 faintly hollowed below it, but bent in the middle and then 

 curved off round the anal angle; dorsal margin slightly 

 rounded ; colour dull umbreous or pale bistre-brown ; basal 

 line abbreviated, double, blackish; first line also blackish, 

 duplicated, and formed into a double series of short curves ; 

 second line curved, blackish, formed into a slender series of 

 minute crescents ; immediately following it is a slender, 

 blackish, almost parallel cloudy line, sometimes also dotted 

 with black, and beyond this a partial parallel series of 

 blackish dots ; subterminal line very irregular, much angu- 

 lated, but complete, yellowish-brown ; immediately before it 

 on the costa is a rather obscure blackish -brown triangle, and 

 outside it the hind margin is clouded with dark brown ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform stigmata of the ground colour, or tinged 

 with yelloAvish, rather large, obscurely margined with dark 

 brown ; the spaces before and between them not darkened 

 except that between them passes a central shade or cloud, 

 rather narrow but angulated, complete to the dorsal margin, 

 and often partly obscuring the reniform ; claviform stigma 

 only visible as a black dot — all the markings indeed are 

 obscure — dorsal margin clouded with smoky-black ; hind 

 margin finished off by a row of slender, minute black lunules 

 and following them by a yellowish line ; cilia reddish-brown 

 clouded with darker. Hind wings rounded, shining, dark 

 grey -brown with rather darker nervures ; cilia yellowish tinged 

 with red. 



Female usually with the fore wings more glossy and 

 smooth-looking, and more regular in colour ; purple-brown 



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