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middle, where it is more strongly marked, also followed by a 

 parallel row of faint brown dots ; subterminal line white, 

 indicated by its attendant row of small brown wedges and 

 minute brown clouds ; orbicular stigma large, rather oval, 

 oblique, white slenderly edged with black and containing a 

 pale brown cloud ; reniform stigma very large, white, but 

 faintly margined with grey, except at the back where it is 

 edged with black; within it is an obscure grey line; claviform 

 stigma a very faint black loop, but attached below to a far 

 more distinct black horizontal bar which unites the first 

 and second lines ; the rest of the space between these lines 

 and around the stigmata is in some degree filled in with dark 

 brown, indicating a broad central band usually broken in the 

 middle, the portion of it from the black bar to the dorsal 

 margin forming a conspicuous squared blotch, which is the 

 most noticeable marking on the wing; costa clouded with 

 pale brown, and toward the apex dotted with white ; extreme 

 hind margin edged with minute black lunules, which in its 

 upper portion are preceded by dark streaks on the nervures ; 

 cilia grey, dusted with white. Hind wings not broad, hind 

 margin rather sinuous ; smoky brown, the base paler or 

 streaked with smoky-white in which the nervures remain 

 dark ; cilia white, clouded with pale brown. Female extremely 

 similar, body only a little stouter. 



Underside of fore wings dull pale smoky-brown ; discal 

 cell downy with long prostrate hair-scales; costal margin 

 narrowly, and hind mai'gin broadly, yellowish-white dusted 

 with brown ; nervures thickened and conspicuous. Hind 

 wings greyish-white, dusted, especially toward the costa, 

 with brown ; central spot triangular, smoky black ; beyond 

 it is a curved transverse stripe of similar atoms, beyond 

 which the whole hind-marginal area is more sparingly dusted, 

 and a similar transverse band is formed near the margin. 

 Body and leg-tufts grey-brown dusted with darker ; legs 

 smoky-brown, barred with white or pale yellow. 



Hardly variable except in the greater or less completeness 



