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with a very broad cloudy-grey central band, of female with 

 two dark grey transverse lines; hind wings white with a 

 cloudy grey spot ; fore legs long, tufted, sprawling. 



Antennae of the male gracefully curved, with the tips 

 downward, strongly pectinated, the two rows of long closely 

 set teeth rather near together; shaft white, pectinations 

 bright brown. Head whitish or greyish- white ; thorax pale 

 grey, densely covered with downy scales ; collar very broad 

 and edged behind with dark grey ; at the back of the thorax 

 is a large smoky black spot ; abdomen whitish, with one, two, 

 or three black bars on the basal segments. Fore wings rather 

 broad with gently rounded margins and bluntly angulated 

 apex ; whitish grey, much obscured by transverse dark grey 

 cloudy markings, a straight indented perjaendicular line near 

 the base ; the usual fir^t and second transverse lines, which 

 are very dark grey or blackish, the first rather curved and 

 partially duplicated, the second more oblique, curved and 

 angulated in the middle ; between these lines is a broad 

 shaded dark grey central band, enclosing a large reniform 

 grey spot, edged with black, at the end of the discal cell ; 

 half-way between the second line and the hind margin is a 

 more or less distinct rippled, or scalloped, dark grey shaded 

 line, much broken, and edged outwardly with whitish ; cilia 

 whitish grey spotted with dark grey. Hind wings rounded, 

 greyish white, with a dark grey cloud from the anal angle 

 partially or completely crossing the wing, and a dark grey 

 central lunule ; cilia white. Female larger, stouter, and quite 

 different ; antennse very short, but regularly pectinated with 

 short teeth ; whitish ; head, thorax, and abdomen very pale 

 grey or greyish white. Fore wings ovate with the costa more 

 rounded ; greyish white or pale grey, with a partial, straight, 

 transverse stripe from the costa near the base ; the first line 

 thick and strongly marked, bent inward, dark grey or grey- 

 brown; second line also rather thick, but not so sharply 

 marked, of similar colour, partly duplicated; the rippled 



