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Antennae of the male threadlike, faintly ciliated, reddish ; 

 palpi densely tufted, and, with the head, rich purple-red ; 

 collar paler purple-red ; rest of the thorax reddish mixed with 

 ashy-grey, the long scales drawn together at the back to 

 points of a brighter red, which indicate a flattened crest; 

 fascicles smoky-white ; abdomen smoky-grey ; the basal 

 segments covered with long, loose, smoky- white hair-scales ; 

 lateral and anal tufts purplish-red. Fore wings short, broad 

 behind, the costa gently rounded ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin below it nearly perpendicular, but slightly 

 rounded off at the anal angle ; dorsal margin faintly rounded ; 

 colour glossy deep purple-brown, suffused from the base 

 with ashy-grey, under which the very faint markings are 

 rendered so obscure as only to be visible in certain lights, 

 indeed they are hardly more than lines of ground colour 

 in the ashy-grey bloom or fi'osting ; when visible — basal 

 line slender, angulated, abbreviated, dark-red brown ; 

 first line of the same colour, slender, curved, and indented ; 

 second line brown, much curved from its origin on the costal 

 margin, then becoming more direct, but indented throughout 

 into long dark points on the nervures ; subterminal line a 

 slender, faintly -yellowish cloud ; orbicular stigma large, reni- 

 form normal, but with a blackish cloudy spot in its lower 

 portion, both indicated mainly by their reddish, incomplete 

 margins ; cilia purple-red. Hind wings rather ample, having 

 a slight hollow in the hind margin below the apex ; shining 

 brownish-grey with browner nervures ; cilia pale purplish red, 

 brighter at the apex. Female very similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-grey, with the apical and 

 hind marginal spaces purple-red and the costal margin very 

 narrowly of the same colour ; beyond the middle is a blackish 

 dash from the costa, indicating a transverse stripe. Hind wings 

 glossy white, dusted with grey, and broadly clouded along the 

 costal margin and cilia with purple-pink ; central spot small, 

 blackish ; beyond it a slender, cloudy, blackish, transverse 

 stripe, curved and indented. Body and legs purplish-brown. 



