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curves (before and behind R 1 ) instead of one large, little-interrupted 

 curve ; antemedial line usually with a white spot or streak at hind- 

 margin ; reniform and orbicular as in achaeoides ; subterminal line 

 usually indistinct, slightly oblique from costa to R 2 , waved and excurved 

 to fold, obsolescent to tornus, sometimes with a proximal dark blotch 

 in fold ; termen and fringe as in achaeoides. 



Hind wing shaped somewhat as in achaeoides, but rather more 

 rounded along abdominal margin and with the apex less cut away ; 

 smoky-fuscous, with a straw-coloured medial half-band from costa, 

 and the costa and costal half of termen pale straw-colour, the 

 abdominal half of termen more or less tinged with pale-brown ; all the 

 shades much more diffused than in achaeoides, the straw-coloured 

 shades sometimes increased or reduced ; termen and fringe nearly as in 

 achaeoides, but with the terminal lunules clearly denned behind SC° 

 and R 1 , not only from behind R 2 to tornus. 



Underside of both wings pale ochreous, irrorated with brown except 

 on the basal half of fore wing from behind SC. Fore wing with broad 

 oblique black medial and postmedial lines, a black discal dot and broadly 

 diffused subterminal patch from behind R 2 to near tornus. Hind wing 

 with a minute celldot, waved medial and postmedial lines, a broad, 

 diffused band distally to postmedial line, sometimes with a slight dark 

 half-line from costa beyond it. 



? , 54—62 mm. 



Differs from the $ in size, in the slightly broader wings, the 

 generally rather more ochreous tone of the fore wing and in the broader 

 and rather longer medial half-band on the hind wing. Underside 

 generally paler, with the lines rather less distinct, especially at 

 costa. 



Ab. (1) fuscimaculata ab. nov., $ , $ , has the whole fore wing 

 more or less thickly irrorated with dark-brown, and a purple-brown 

 band proximally to the medial line ; hind wing and abdomen a little 

 darkened. 



Ab. (2) fuscofasciata ab. nov., $ , ? , has a deep purple-brown 

 band proximally to the antemedial line and dark purple-brown shading 

 distally to the postmedial line. 



Ab. (3) variegata ab. nov., $ , 2 , is similar, but has the area 

 between medial and postmedial lines largely suffused with white. 



Ab. (4) defuscata ab. nov., $ $ , has the white medial suffusion 

 and a white shade behind costa, near apex, but is without the dark 

 purple-brown bands. 



