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scales, chestuut-red, baiTed with pale yellow-brown ; shoulder 

 lappets similar, rather raised ; abdomen yellowish-brown, 

 shading to red-brown behind, with an erect, divided, red- 

 brown tuft on the back of the basal segment, and smaller, 

 shorter tufts on the two following ; anal segment with a short 

 red-brown tuft. Fore wings moderately broad ; costa very 

 slightly curved to the apes, which also is rounded ; hind 

 margin rather curved, but very little oblique ; slightly 

 scalloped ; dorsal margin nearly straight, with a tooth-shaped 

 projecting tuft of blackish scales in the middle. Colour very 

 pale yellowish-brown from the base, occupying the costal half 

 to the middle, shading into light red-brown in the dorsal 

 region, and also through the outer middle portion to the apes ; 

 hind marginal space mainly occupied by a large ovate whitish 

 blotch containing faint clouds of pale brownish and a single 

 black streak on a nervure ; principal nervures dark brown, 

 especially beyond the middle of the wing ; usual transverse 

 lines only faintly visible ; the first as a light brown spot on 

 the costa, and a couple of sharp angles just before the 

 prominent tuft ; the second as a series of scallops along the 

 base of the white patch, but bending back to the costa ; cilia 

 white, clouded and dashed with brown, especially at the 

 tips of the nervures. Hind wings rounded, light red-brown, 

 paler at the base ; at the anal angle is a blackish blotch, 

 divided transversely by a yellowish line which continues 

 faintly across the wing ; cilia white, clouded and dashed with 

 light brown. Female a little larger and stouter, antennae 

 merely dentated, otherwise quite similar. 



Underside pale brownish-drab, the hind wings paler drab ; 

 both are crossed by two faint, indented, brownish lines or 

 shades ; cilia white, dashed with smoky-black ; body golden- 

 brown ; legs light brown, barred in front with white, and 

 having very dense tufts of pale yellow-brown scales. 



Not variable escept a little in the depth of reddish-brown 

 colouring. 



On the wing from the middle of May to the middle of June. 



