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lineis tribns mediis fuscis undulatis punctia duobus discoidalibus albis 

 linea postmedia cinerea fascia exteriore fusca diffusa punctis sub- 

 marginalibus et marginalibus nigris, alls posticis pallide fuscis linea 

 postica cinerea. 



Female. Cinereous, smooth, very thickly brown-speckled, a little 

 paler beneath. Frontal tuft short, obliquely ascending. Proboscis 

 tawny. Palpi cinereous, squamous, obliquely ascending, rising a 

 little higher than the vertex, thickly speckled with brown on the outer 

 side ; second joint broad ; third lanceolate, slender, nearly half the 

 length of the second. Abdomen pale brown, a little shorter than the 

 interior border of the hind wings. Wings broad. Fore wings acute, 

 subfalcate ; three cinereous transverse lines near the base ; first and 

 second abbreviated hindward ; third irregularly bordered with brown 

 on the outer side ; a cinereous transverse line beyond three-fourths of 

 the length, with a diffuse brown band along its outer side ; three 

 undulating brown transverse lines in the middle part; two white 

 points in the disk, one beyond the other ; submarginal and marginal 

 points black ; under side and hind wings pale brown ; the latter with 

 a cinereous line proceeding from the disk to the hind part of the 

 interior border. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 

 22 lines. 



Limas. 



92. POAPHTLA BASTGUTTA. FORM. Cinerea, fusco-conspersa, fronte 

 fasciculata, palpis gracilibus subfirnbriatis oblique ascendentibus arti- 

 culo 3o lanceolate jji dimidio breviore, abdomine fuscescente segmentis 

 cinereo pallido marginatis apice fulvo compresso, alis anticis gutta 

 basali nigricante lineis duabus antemediis undulatis punctisque sub- 

 marginalibus fuscis striga postrnedia transversa fulva nigricante 

 terminata fascia exteriore undulata obscure cinerea fulvo marginata 

 fimbria fulva, alis posticis fuscescentibus. 



Female. Cinereous, minutely brown-speckled. Frontal tuft pro- 

 minent. Palpi slender, slightly fringed, obliquely ascending, not 

 rising higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, less than half 

 the length of the second. Abdomen brownish, not extending beyond 

 the hind wings ; hind borders of the segments pale cinereous ; tip 

 tawny, compressed. Fore wings with a blackish dot near the base ; 

 two antemedial brown undulating lines, the second broader than the 

 first ; a broad tawny transverse postmedial streak, blackish at each 

 end ; an exterior undulating dark cinereous band which is tawny- 

 bordered on the inner side ; submarginal points brown ; fringe tawnv. 

 Hind wings brownish. Wings beneath with a brown lunule in the 

 disk. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Most allied to P. porrif/ens ; the first line in the fore wings of the 

 latter is much more straight. 



