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whitish-brown collar, which is prominently raised at the 

 shoulders, and edged with yellow-brown at the back ; 

 shoulder-lappets short, raised, yellowish-white, tipped with 

 yellow-brown ; upper surface covered with erect whitish-drab 

 scales, tipped with yellow-brown, and formed at the back 

 into a large expanding double crest ; abdomen less stout, 

 rather tapering, covered with long buff scales, which are in 

 large masses toward the base ; a row of long tufts down each 

 side, and a rather conical anal tuft, all of the same colour. 

 Fore wings broad, triangular, with the costa arched at the 

 base and apex, straight between ; apex bluntly rounded, 

 almost angulated ; hind margin gently rounded ; dorsal 

 margin hollowed before the anal angle. Colour, pale soft 

 greyish-buff; a curved white stripe, edged with brown, 

 from the middle of the base, reaches the first transverse 

 line, which is broad and white, arises on the costa near 

 the base, and passes obliquely across the wing to beyond 

 the middle of the dorsal margin, almost extending itself 

 to join another broad white stripe, which extends from 

 within the anal angle to the apex. The middle portion of 

 the wing between these stripes is clouded with rich orange- 

 brown, which shades off to white along the costa, to yellow 

 along the first stripe, and to grey-buff along the second, 

 before which are four parallel, slender, zigzagged white lines, 

 and a wedge-shaped white streak from the costa ; orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata outlined with white, the latter having 

 a central white upright line ; hind margin with a row of 

 delicate white crescents, of which the points run into the 

 cilia and enclose elongate orange-brown marginal streaks ; 

 cilia buff, tinged with orange-brown. Hind wings ample, 

 rather long, rounded behind ; pale greyish -brown, with a 

 faintly indicated, whitish central transverse cloud ; cilia 

 yellowish-white. Female similar ; abdomen more pointed. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellowish-grey, paler along 

 the costa and spotted with pale fawn colour; apex with a 

 pale orange-brown cloud, edged inwardly by a whitish 



