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long, broad behind ; j^ale grey-brown with a reddish gloss, 

 and abundant mottling of blackish-umbreous ; subterminal 

 line irregular, white or yellowish, broken above the middle ; 

 reniform stigma edged with white ; hind wings pale smoky- 

 brown. 



Antenna of the male simple, finely ciliated, black-brown ; 

 palpi broadly tufted, blackish at the sides, grey-brown in 

 front; apical joint rather conspicuous; head and thorax 

 blackish-umbreous, dusted with pale brown and black, 

 crested slightly at the top, more distinctly at the back, the 

 tufts tipped with black ; fascicles broad, smoky-white ; base 

 of the abdomen covered with similar long hair-scales, re- 

 mainder smoky-brown ; dorsal crests two to five in number, 

 smoky-black, the second the largest ; lateral and anal tufts 

 spreading, smoky-brown. Fore wrings elongated, broad 

 behind; costa very gently curved; apex quite suddenly 

 rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin much rounded and 

 faintly crenulated toward the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 rather hollowed and gracefully curved ; coloar pale smoky- 

 brown, almost wholly obscured by clouding and mottling of 

 blackish and dark umbreous, the whole rather shining" with a 

 golden-reddish glow ; basal line suggested by two pairs of 

 widely separated black spots ; first line a succession of very 

 obscure lunate black clouds ; second line more slender, an 

 obscure series of black crescents ; subterminal line distinct, 

 white or yellowish, broken below the apex, in the middle 

 forming a rather short and indistinct W, below this the line 

 thickens as it aiDproaches the anal angle ; orbicular stigma 

 indistinct, round, smoky-grey edged with black ; reniform 

 stigma sharply edged in front and behind with white, and 

 having a pair of white dots at each end; middle portion 

 smoky-grey ; claviform stigma very broad, blackish, edged 

 with deeper black ; the entire costal half of the wing is 

 clouded with dark smoky -brown or dull black to near the 

 apex ; but usually this shades oft' so as to leave large spaces 

 of the pale ground colour in the dorsal portion, both toward 



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