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loose whitish scales, remainder pale brown ; lateral tufts in- 

 conspicuous ; anal tuft long and narrow, pale reddish. Fore 

 wings narrow, almost truncate ; costal margin straight, apex 

 squarely angulated ; hind margin, below it, straight, but 

 elbowed in the middle and curved off at the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin gently curved ; colour drab, or very pale olive- 

 brown or reddish-brown ; all the nervures edged with white, 

 the median broadly so ; basal line indicated by two blackish 

 streaks edged with white ; first line incomplete, formed of 

 one, two, or three black curved streaks edged inwardly with 

 white, not approaching the costa ; second line oblique, a 

 little bent but obscure, composed of ill-defined black cres- 

 cents edged outwardly with white ; subterminal line white, 

 preceded by a row of black wedges pointing inward, but 

 usually obsolete toward the costa ; hind margin clouded with 

 dark brown and edged with flat black lunules; orbicular 

 stigma small but distinct, ovate, whitish, edged with black ; 

 reniform stigma large and conspicuous, clouded with dark 

 brown and bordered with black ; between them is a rather 

 squared blackish or brown spot in the discal cell ; claviform 

 stigma long and large, like a canine tooth, dark purple-brown 

 edged with black ; between this and the two upper stigmata 

 a broad oblique stripe of pale ground colour, arising at the 

 base of the wing, and sometimes branched along the costa, is 

 very conspicuous and reliable ; costa edged usually with 

 broken blackish streaks ; cilia long, whitish, chequered with 

 brown dashes. Hind wings very slightly hollowed below the 

 apex, otherwise rounded ; glossy white with a brown central 

 lunule, brownish nervures, and a slender pale grey transverse 

 stripe along the hind margin and extending itself more 

 broadly along the apex and costal region ; hind margin usually 

 dotted with brown or black ; cilia pure shining white. 



Fore wings of the female rather narrower and more ob- 

 scurely coloured, dark brown or dark olive-brown, nervures 

 blacker and hardly edged with whitish, except the median, 

 which is bordered by the usual broad oblique pale stripe ; the 



