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greyish-brown or whitish-grey, faintly tinged with brown 

 toward the costal and hind margins ; basal line only indicated 

 by two minute black dots, but below these is a slender black 

 longitudinal line arising from the middle of the base, and 

 below it, close to the dorsal margin, another, rather longer and 

 more conspicuous; first line obscure, brownish-black, but hardly 

 recognisable, since it runs to the middle of the wing in long 

 acute angles which appear like united longitudinal streaks ; 

 second line also obscure, black-brown, moderately curved, but 

 arranged in a series of shorter yet very acute angles ; subter- 

 minal line absent but replaced by a row of spindle-shaped 

 cloudy black-brown streaks, between which the nervures 

 from the second line are also blackened quite to the hind 

 margin ; orbicular stigma ovate, prostrate, edged with 

 black and preceded by a black streak ; reniform stigma 

 tinged with brown and in its lower portion with black, also 

 divided and faintly edged with black ; space between it and 

 the orbicular blackened to the costal margin ; claviform 

 stigma slenderly edged with black and attached to a black 

 streak, parallel with which is usually another upon the dorsal 

 margin ; cilia black-brown dusted with white. Hind wings 

 short, snowy white ; nervures and hind marginal line pale 

 brown, cilia white. Antennte of the female simple ; fore 

 wings slightly broader behind ; ground colour, with that of 

 the thorax, more uniformly tinged with pale brown ; space 

 between the two upper stigmata not blackened ; hind wings 

 pale brown, darkest at the hind margin ; cilia white with a 

 yellow shade along the base ; body stouter and more pointed. 

 Underside of the fore wings in the male smoky-white, more 

 smoky-brown in the middle and there clothed with long 

 hair-scales ; reniform stigma smoky-black ; cilia smoky-brown 

 dashed with white. Hind wings white, dusted along the 

 margins with smoky-brown ; nervures and hind marginal line 

 light brown, cilia white. Body pale smoky-brown ; leg-tufts 

 more purplish-brown ; tibiee umbreous, barred with pale 

 yellow. In the female the fore wings are more uniformly 



