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a brighter brown dorsal crest on the basal segment ; lateral 

 tufts small ; anal tuft more conspicuous, pale ochreous. 

 Fore wings narrow at the base, rather triangular; costa 

 straight ; apex suddenly rounded, almost angulated ; hind 

 margin very little oblique, nearly straight to below the 

 middle where it is rounded off; dorsal margin straight ; 

 colour pale yellow-brown, often almost bone colour, mottled 

 with deeper yellow-brown ; basal line indicated by three 

 black dots, beyond which is a shadowy brown parallel line ; 

 first line slender, perpendicular, black, divided by the 

 nervures and only reaching the dorsal margin as a faint 

 brown continuation; second line black, much curved, and 

 consisting of a series of deep crescents, of which those below 

 the middle of the wing are large ; subterminal line pale 

 yellow, edged on each side with pale brown, and in its middle 

 portion preceded by three black wedges ; orbicular stigma 

 large, open above and below, yellowish-white, faintly edged 

 in front and at the back with black or brown, and partly 

 filled up by a yellow-brown cloud ; reniform stigma also 

 large, elongated, yellow-drab, edged in front and behind 

 with fine black lines and containing a brown line parallel 

 with the back margin ; claviform sbigma large and broad, 

 brown faintly edged with black ; middle area of the wing 

 between the first and second lines and around the stigmata 

 filled in with deeper yellow-brown, but outside this the 

 portion lying toward the anal angle is usually very pale ; 

 cilia dull yellow looped with brown and tipped with white. 

 Hind wings yellowish-white, dusted with brown ; nervures 

 darker brown ; beyond the middle is a slender, partial, brown 

 transverse line not reaching either margin, and beyond it 

 a broad clouding of pale greyish-brown, the whole surface 

 having a golden gloss ; cilia white. Female quite similar, 

 except that the body is stouter and much more pointed 

 behind, with the anal tuft very small. 



Underside of fore wings shining yellowish-white, dusted 

 with brown ; costal region and all the nervures ochreous ; 



