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another black costal spot, makes a wide curve, but bends in 

 at the middle and thence proceeds straight to the dorsal 

 margin, forming throughout its course a series of crescents 

 with long points swelling into dots ; subterminal line an 

 indistinct series of small brownish clouds sometimes edged 

 outwardly with whitish ; orbicular and claviform stigmata 

 absent; reniform stigma rather small, grey, edged on both 

 sides with black; immediately before it is a very slender 

 dark brown, or grey, transverse shade ; costal margin partially 

 edged with black, and besides the black spots in which the 

 lines originate, having two sharp black points before the 

 apex, which, with the hind margin, is edged with minute 

 black lunules ; cilia pale brown tipped with whitish. Hind 

 wings whitish with grey nervures and the costal and hind 

 margins more or less clouded with grey ; central spot large, 

 triangular, grey; beyond it is a very faint slender grey 

 transverse stripe. 



Female smaller, with narrower fore wings, smaller hind 

 wings, and stouter, more pointed body ; antennae simple, dark 

 brown ; thorax dark grey-brown or blackish-brown with a 

 broad black bar across the front of the collar ; fore wings 

 dark umbreous or blackish-brown abundantly dusted with 

 dark grey or smoky-black, hind-marginal space usually 

 paler ; orbicular stigma visible as a cloudy blackish spot ; 

 first and second lines thickened, deeper black ; central shade 

 broadened and darkened, obscuring the reniform stigma ; 

 hind wings rather darker, sometimes very much so toward 

 the hind margin. 



Underside of the male very pretty, whitish-grey with 

 whiter nervures ; reniform stigma dark grey, followed by 

 two slender dark grey transverse stripes which are divided 

 by the white nervures. Hind wings whitish, costal region 

 and apex broadly dusted with grey-brown ; central lunule 

 large, distinct, dark grey or black, followed by a dark grey 

 transverse strii^e which is most distinct on the nervures. 

 Body brown ; legs dark brown ; leg tufts purplish-brown, 



