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chocolate-red, forming a conspicuous crest ; abdomen long, 

 pale reddish-brown, with a long, compact, narrow anal tuft 

 of the same colour, forked, and tipped with chocolate. Fore 

 wings narrow at the base, broad behind ; costa at first arched, 

 then straight almost to the tip ; apex rounded, hind margin 

 nearly straight to near the anal angle, and not very oblique ; 

 dorsal margin gracefully curved ; pale reddish-grey, or very 

 pale reddish-brown ; at a short distance from the base is a 

 slightly oblique, straight, white, transverse line, edged out- 

 side with light brown ; before the middle of the wing is 

 another, similar, and nearly parallel ; beyond the middle a 

 third, more broadly white on the costa and concave to the 

 middle, thence straight to the dorsal margin ; between the 

 second and third are indications of another line in two 

 separate similar streaks, almost end to end, but neither 

 attaining the margin of the wing. From the concave of the 

 third line the large apical space is wholly occupied by a 

 brilliant chocolate-red blotch, shading into greyer toward the 

 hind margin, and having within it a perpendicular row 

 of cloudy-grey streaks or spots ; the lower edge of the 

 chocolate blotch curves outward, and nearly attains the anal 

 angle ; cilia light brown. Hind wings pale reddish-brown, 

 paler at the base ; cilia whitish. Antennae of the female 

 very shortly pectinated; abdomen much stouter; hind wings 

 uniformly pale reddish-brown ; otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dull brown, with a whitish 

 spot on the costa beyond the middle, and beyond it the 

 apical chocolate blotch, paler and more dull than above . 

 hind wings whitish with a faint brown central transverse 

 line ; body whitish-brown : first pair of legs tinged with 

 chocolate-red in front, remainder greyish. 



Variation in this species is mainly seasonal. There are 

 two and sometimes three generations in the yeai", each 

 usually of a different ground colour ; the first is pale grey, or 

 pale yellowish-grey, with the chocolate blotch dark, and 

 tinged with purplish ; the second reddish-drab, or reddish- 



