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somewhat angular, transverse spot, which stands obliquely 

 on the inner margin ; this often has towards the costa and on 

 the subdoi'sal vein regular black scales, collected into a spot. 

 The first transverse line is thick on the costa and makes 

 first a very acute and then on the subdorsal vein an obtuse 

 angle; on the costa it is often margined with black scales 

 towards the disc, but always margined broadly with the 

 ground colour, its angles contain clusters of black scales. 

 On the disc the whitish scales rarely and only singly attain 

 the inner margin ; generally they only surround the two 

 black central spots, these are round or slightly streak-shaped, 

 and the whitish encompassing of the larger is generally pro- 

 longed as a streak to a black spot on the first transverse line. 

 The second transverse line makes a few small angles, between 

 which it is slightly curved posteriorly and slightly serrated; 

 it is gaily margined with brown-yellow, most darkly on the 

 costa, not rarely black scales occur in this bordering, which 

 also sometimes form spots, but never sti-eaks on the veins as 

 in Ornatella. Before the hind margin is a row of six black 

 spots as in that species, on a whitish ground. Cilia brown- 

 grey, with pale fine transverse lines and pale tips. 



Posterior wings dark brown-grey, darker at the hind 

 margin ; the paler cilia intersected by a darker line at the 

 base. 



Underside shining brown-grey ; the anterior wings darker, 

 with the costa very narrowly yellowish, and with a yellow 

 spot before the apex, beneath which the second transverse 

 line of the upper side shines faintly through. Cilia lighter, 

 otherwise as on the upperside of the posterior wings. 



Variety h only differs by the beautiful pale brown- red 

 margins of the transverse lines. 



The female is distinguished by the less white scaling of 

 the disc, whereby the ground colour is more prevalent. In 



