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with black ; lateral and anal tufts whitish, small but spread- 

 ing. Fore wings of moderate breadth, with the costa very 

 faintly curved, apex blunt, almost rounded, hind margin long, 

 oblique, and decidedly curved below the middle, the curve 

 sweeping smoothly round to the straight dorsal margin ; 

 ground colour whitish-grey with a broad deep black cloud 

 from the base along the dorsal margin nearly to the anal 

 angle, and also forming a cloudy black baud across the 

 middle to the costa ; in it are some faintly browner clouds ; 

 on the costa, near the base, are three ill-defined blackish 

 streaks, from the third of which arises a blackish first line, 

 which crosses straight to the black cloud ; beyond the black 

 central cloudy band is a series of black costal dashes, from 

 the second of which arises the second line, which sweeps 

 broadly outward and downward to the middle of the wing 

 with several undulations, thence bends inward and proceeds 

 to the dorsal margin, being rendered visible in the black 

 portion by being edged inside by two grey or reddish-grey 

 crescents ; through the upper of these crescents passes a 

 straight, deep black streak, direct to the hind margin close 

 above the anal angle ; orbicular stigma large, indicated by a 

 slender black ring ; reniform stigma obscurely indicated by 

 purplish-grey clouding in the black band ; space between it 

 and the second line tinged with smoky-ochreous ; the upper 

 portion of the second line is bordered outside by a grey 

 cloud, from the middle of which a small straight black streak 

 runs to the hind margin, which also is clouded with dark 

 grey ; cilia white, clouded with dark grey and regularly 

 barred with black. Hind wings clear white, with a greyish 

 cloud along the apical portion of the hind margin ; cilia 

 whitish, barred with dark grey. Female hardly differing in 

 colour or markings, but with the apical grey edging of the 

 hind wings rather broader. 



Underside shining whitish-grey ; costal half of the fore 

 wings tinged with greyish-brown and with some blackish 

 clouds along the edge ; underneath the reniform stigma is a 



