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tions being solid distinct teeth — not tufts of hairs — not long 

 in either sex, quite sliort in the female, blackish-brown, the 

 shaft being whitish. Head reddish-brown, whitey-brown at 

 the back, collar broad, double, the front portion brown or 

 grey-brown, the hinder forming an edging of whitey-brown ; 

 thorax rusty brown to the middle, then having upon the 

 back a broad ashy-grey blotch, followed by a transverse 

 blackish bar, edged behind with rusty brown ; abdomen very 

 stout, dark grey, with the segments edged with long loose 

 ashy-white scales, forming pale slender transverse bars. 

 Fore wings oblong, broad and ample, with the costal margin 

 nearly straight in the male, gently curved in the female ; 

 apex rounded ; hind margin regularly rounded, not very 

 oblique ; ashy-grey clouded with whitish and shaded with 

 brownish, especially near the base and dorsal margin, and 

 through the middle ; and having over the whole surface 

 multitudes of delicate, irregular wavy brown or blackish lines, 

 mainly lying in short lengths in a transverse direction, but 

 also forming a delicate network all over the fore wings. 

 Costa barred with numerous short black streaks ; a long and 

 distinct black line arises upon the costa at two-thirds of its 

 length and crosses to the anal angle, beyond it is another of 

 half the length, and sometimes another, more broken, shows 

 itself much nearer the base. Hind wings ample, dark smoky 

 grey, paler towards the hind margin, much reticulated with 

 very delicate brown and blackish cross lines. Cilia of all the 

 wings whitish -grey, faintly dashed with brown. Sexes simi- 

 lar, but the female the larger, stouter, and often darker in 

 colour. Underside of the fore wings very smoky, but with 

 the black costal bars and the black lines beyond the middle 

 broader and more clouded ; of the hind wings ashy-grey, 

 abundantly reticulated with irregular dark grey lines, except 

 towards the dorsal margin, which is smoky-brown ; under- 

 jsurface of the body ashy-grey mixed with smoky -brown ; legs 

 blackish spotted with brown, 

 June and July. 



