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black; reniform stigma whitish; a large white W in the 

 middle of the hind margin. Hind wings white clouded with 

 grey-brown. 



Antennae of the male notched like a fine saw, faintly 

 ciliated, brown ; palpi broadly and loosely tufted, dark 

 chocolate, apical joint distinct; head and thorax densely 

 covered with chocolate-brown scales, the collar slenderly and 

 faintly barred with a black line ; top and back crests distinct, 

 of the same colour ; fascicles dusky white ; abdomen greyish- 

 brown with some dusky white hair-scales toward the base; 

 along the dorsal ridge are three or four depressed crests or 

 tufts of a chocolate-brown colour ; lateral and anal tufts 

 spreading, pale chocolate. Fore wings long and rather 

 narrow ; costal margin very gently curved ; apex angulated, 

 rather pointed ; hind margin slightly rounded and very 

 oblique ; dorsal margin nearly straight ; colour pale chocolate- 

 brown or greyish-brown, much marbled with black ; basal line 

 limited to two oblique angulated black streaks, edged out- 

 wardly by a whitish-chocolate shade ; first line deep black, 

 broken into a series of curves, and faintly duplicated, the 

 space enclosed thereby being paler than the ground colour ; 

 second line black, forming a complete series of small crescents, 

 some of which are produced into black lines on the nervures ; 

 outside this second line is a closely parallel pale line; subter- 

 minal line pale yellow or white, slender, much indented, and in 

 the middle forming a distinct W ; before each angle of this 

 is a long black dash ; orbicular stigma faintly paler and 

 ringed with a fine black line ; reniform stigma conspicuous, 

 whitish, edged behind and also divided with black ; between 

 these is a narrow but distinct black central shade arising in 

 a large blackish cloud on the costa, and, with angles and 

 projections on the way, attaining the dorsal margin, passing 

 through a blackish bar or large squared blotch on its way ; 

 this bar or blotch is formed of the obscure black claviform 

 stigma, and an extension thereof; costal margin beyond the 

 middle dotted with pale yellow, extreme hind margin edged 



