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a lighter brown : lateral and aual tui'cs spreadiug. i ore wiugs 

 elongated, not very broad, costa very gently curved ; apex 

 bluntly angulated ; hind margin oblique, very gracefully 

 curved, and crenulated, especially towards the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin rather straight : colour, shining pale purplish- 

 brown shading off rather paler along the dorsal margin ; 

 basal line red-brown, duplicated, angulated close to the costa 

 and bending into the middle of the base so as to form a basal 

 streak ; first line red-brown, rather obscure, oblique and 

 nearly straight to near the dorsal margin, where it is angulated ; 

 second line a faint series of reddish-brown crescents, the long 

 points from which run along the nervures in blackish dots 

 (these two lines are nearer to each other than is usual in other 

 species) ; subterminal line faintly whitish, edged inwardly 

 with red-brown, indistinctly angulated into long arrow-heads 

 towards tlie hind margin ; nervures preceding it paler ; orbi- 

 cular stigma large, round, very indistinct, but faintly edged 

 with whitish and ringed with red-brown ; reniform stigma more 

 distinctly edged with red-brown and inside this with white, 

 the outer edge shai'ply white, and this is the only distinct 

 marking upon the wing ; claviform stigma very obscure — a 

 broad loop edged with red-brown ; close to the anal angle are 

 two noticeable chocolate streaks, which are part of the edging 

 of the subterminal line ; extreme hind margin sharply edged 

 with slender reddish-black or red-brown lunules ; cilia very 

 pale smoky-brown. Hind wings soft pale brown, with a 

 light golden gloss, deepening into an ill-defined broad band 

 of darker smoky-brown along the hind margin ; nervures 

 faintly darkened ; cilia white, with a faint shading of brown. 

 Female larger, with the fore wings decidedly broader, and 

 the costa more arched ; antenme simple ; hind wings more 

 uniformly brown, body stouter. 



Underside of fore wings silky pale umbreous, with a rather 

 darker broad band toward the hind margin ; hind wings 

 more whitish- bruwn, dusted with brown along the costa, and 

 broadly clouded along the hind nuirgin, central sput brown ; 



