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front with cinereous. Abdomen light to warm buff, streaked with ochraceous 

 buff and irrorated with fuscous, with Brussels brown hair-scales at the base. 

 Pectus and underside of abdomen light to ochraceous buff, the legs ochraceous 

 buff strongly shaded dorsally with Brussels brown. Fore wing chestnut brown ; 

 a velvety blackish brown spot sub-basally on costa, with a smaller one just 

 below the lower margin of the cell ; a velvety blackish brown antemedial 

 fascia, beginning as a somewhat lunular (concavity basad) mark on the costa, 

 followed by a larger, more or less triangular spot edged basad by a fine cinereous 

 line which curves sharply to run terminad along the edge of the spot above vein 

 A 2 , gradually curving downwards to inner margin ; this antemedial fascia has 

 an outer edging of auburn ; an indistinct lighter spot at end of cell having a 

 centre of the ground-colour, and enclosing some cinereous scales on the dis- 

 cocellulars ; a narrow trilineate postmedial fascia, running very obliquely from 

 costa terminad to about vein E 5 , then turning and running in a direction at 

 right angles to inner margin to just below vein Cu 2 , then returning in a curve 

 to lower angle of cell, curving round and reaching the inner margin at about 

 three-quarters ; a slightly waved subterminal fascia from costa to vein M x 

 (thence obsolescent), consisting of a velvety blackish brown shade finely edged 

 with cinereous, and preceded by three fine cinereous dashes on the costa ; a 

 triangular area between end of cell and subterminal fascia with its apex reaching 

 below vein Cu 2 , lighter than the ground colour, approaching auburn, in which 

 colour the obsolescent part of the subterminal fascia is faintly indicated ; traces 

 of cinereous irroration on the veins, and a fine terminal cinereous edging ; fringe 

 chestnut brown. Hind wing warm buff to light ochraceous buff, suffused with 

 fuscous, with a crenulate fuscous postmedial fascia, a similar subterminal fascia 

 between which and the termen the whole area is infuscate ; fringe ochraceous 

 orange. 



Underside : forewing warm buff to ochraceous buff costally and terminally, 

 with fuscous suffusion in the cell, a fuscous medial shade through end of cell, 

 a double fascia of fuscous suffusion subterminally, and the fringe edged with 

 fuscous ; hindwing warm buff to ochraceous buff irrorated with fuscous, with a 

 fuscous dot at middle of discocellars, a fuscous postmedial fascia, and a pro- 

 nounced increase in the fuscous irroration from subterminal area right up to 

 termen. 



Expanse : 58 mm. 



Holotype Upolu : Malololelei, 2,000 feet, 13.vii.1924, 



