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and blunt ; head light brown, not strongly tufted, but there 

 is a small elevation of the scales between the antennae ; 

 thorax rather smooth, pale umbreous dusted with paler, with 

 a few dark brown dots on the shoulder-lappets ; fascicles 

 small, brownish-white ; abdomen thinly scaled, dull pale 

 brown with a dusting of white ; basal segments covered with 

 long brownish-white hair-scales, among which, on the dorsal 

 ridge, are one or two short and exceedingly fugitive dull 

 brown tufts or crests; lateral and anal tufts small. Fore 

 wings rather narrow, the costa very faintly curved ; apex 

 rounded ; hind margin also rounded, but slightly excavated 

 towards the anal angle ; dorsal margin faintly hollowed in 

 the middle ; colour dull pale umbreous clouded with darker 

 brown and the nervures indicated in the same colour ; basal 

 line faintly suggested by two dusky spots ; beneath them is 

 a small horizontal black line arising from the middle of the 

 base ; first line black, but obscure and incomplete, widely 

 angulated and preceded by a faint brown shade ; second 

 line black but incomplete and not very distinct, edged by a 

 more complete pale brown line ; subterminal line merely an 

 irregular undulating pale brown thread, very faint and not 

 edged inwardly with dark colour, outwardly it is usually 

 bounded by a dark brown hind-marginal stripe ; orbicular 

 and claviform stigmata small, reniform large, all very pale 

 brown, or almost yellowish-brown, obscurely edged with black ; 

 sometimes a black streak is visible before the orbicular, and 

 a squared black or dark brown blotch between it and the 

 reniform ; beneath these, where the first and second lines 

 approach each other, is usually a black bar uniting these lines 

 and enclosing the claviform stigma, sometimes another on 

 the dorsal margin, and in such examples the central band is 

 usually clouded with dark brown ; often another black streak — 

 tooth-shaped — lies on the same margin nearer the base ; 

 costa faintly spotted with black ; cilia dark brown, dashed 

 with paler. Hind wings rather narrow and small, clear white, 

 edged along the hind margin with a few dark-brown lunules, 



