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and claspers are dull ochreous-yellow, resembling the 

 ground-colour, and the mouth and spiracles are black. 

 The body is covered with minute brown dots and 

 numerous pale hairs. 



The pupa (Fig. 136) is of the shape common to the 

 group to which it belongs short and stout, without 



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angles or points. It is frequently unsuspended. The 

 colour is whitish-brown, the wing- and antennae-cases 

 being freckled with pale brown ; the pupa is marked in 

 places with yellow. 



The imago (Fig. 138) has the costal margin of the fore- 

 wings convex, and the hind-margin of all the wings slightly 



