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a kidney-shaped dark brown spot ; claviform stigma small, 

 sharply pointed, edged, and sometimes filled, with black ; 

 hind margin dotted with black and with a blackish streak 

 on each nervure ; cilia pale brown, dusted with darker. 

 Hind wings rather short, white, with brownish dashes on 

 the nervures and a very faint grey central spot ; along the 

 apical and hind margins is a row of slender brownish 

 lunules ; cilia white. 



Antennfo of the female threadlike ; thorax ashy-grey with 

 the crescents in front of the collar black and conspicuous ; 

 fore wings black-brown with a purplish gloss ; markings very 

 obscure and indistinct, but before the reniform stigma is a 

 blotch of pale drab enclosing the crushed orbicular stigma ; 

 and sometimes a fainter drab patch beyond it. Hind wings 

 more tinged with grey ; abdomen rather short. 



Underside of the fore wings of the male shining pale 

 brown ; costa yellowish, dorsal region whitish ; at the 

 reniform stigma is usually a darker brown cloud, and 

 beyond it a slender, faintly blackish, transverse stripe • 

 apex and cilia tinged with reddish : hind wings whitish, 

 costal region dusted with grey; central spot very small, 

 blackish ; beyond it is a slender transverse line consisting 

 of dots and dashes on nervures ; margins and cilia white, 

 dashed with brownish. Female more tinged with smoky- 

 black. Body pale greyish-brown ; anal tuft more yellowish ; 

 leg-tufts grey-brown ; legs dark brown or blackish, barred 

 with pale brown. 



Not very variable, but a recurrent form of the male, 

 in which the whole of the basal portion of the fore wings, 

 to the first line, is more or less filled in with blackish, and 

 the transverse lines are more distinct, was formerly described 

 as a separate species under the name of radia ; a variety of 

 the female in which a brown transverse stripe lies along the 

 second line was described as its female. The late Mr. 

 Bentley when writing upon these varieties and showing that 

 they were of the same species as the typical form — then 



