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the half-line whitish, rather conspicuous ; the inner and elbowed 

 lines only indicated as limiting the broad blackish central portion 

 of the wing, the inner line somewhat angulate in the middle ; the 

 elbowed line nearly straight from the costa to the elbow, thence 

 continued in a strongly oblique manner to the inner margin, so 

 that the broad central dark portion is nearly twice as broad on 

 the costal as on the inner margin ; beyond the elbowed line the 

 ground colour is much paler, greyish varied with black scales, the 

 somewhat curved subterminal line indicated by a series of about 

 six blackish dots ; the ordinary spots (or stigmata) conspicuous ; 

 the " orbicular " nearly quadrate, with a black spot on its inner 

 side, the " reniform " large, somewhat filled in with greyish ; the 

 space between it and the "orbicular" is black, the two spots 

 connected on their lower edges by a whitish line on tlie ner- 

 vure ; the claviform only slightly indicated ; fringe whitish, inter- 

 sected with blackish. Posterior wings whitish, with a slight 

 creamy tinge ; the inner margin suffused with blackish, the outer 

 margin with a very broad blackish border occupying about one 

 fourth of the wing, in which is included a short pale line at the 

 anal angle ; central spot very large, black, half-moon-shaped ; 

 fringes silky whitish, the hairs on the base of the inner margin 

 blackish. The underside of both pairs of wings nearly uniformly 

 whitish : the anterior slightly suffused with smoky, the subter- 

 minal line distinct ; a rather conspicuous lunate blackish central 

 spot ; fringe wholly whitish ; posterior with a very distinct, 

 nearly rounded, black discal spot; the dark border paler and nar- 

 rower than on the upperside. 



Body blackish, clothed with whitish hairs intermingled with 

 black ; those of the abdomen and anal tuft more greyish. An- 

 tennse blackish, serrate internally, each joint being produced into 

 a triangular tooth, with short whitish cilia. Haustellum fuscous, 

 very long. Palpi clothed with long whitish hair-scales, m which 

 a few blackish are intermingled. Eyes distinctly hairy, and with 

 long blackish lashes. Legs black, varied with white (or vice versa); 

 tibiae with a white fringe internally, and white at the tips ; tarsi 

 deep black, strongly (the posterior less conspicuously) annu- 

 lated with white ; spines of the tibiae and tarsi short but nume- 

 rous, testaceous. Anal appendages of the J prominent, testa- 

 ceous : the upper pair rather narrow soon after the base, but very 

 greatly dilated at the apex, the upper edge straight, the apical 

 edge nearly truncate, the lower edge very deeply excised ; lower 



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