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wing pale, with traces of dark margins ; a diffused blackish spot beyond it on each side of 
third median nervule : hind wing with the postmedial band pale and very indistinct and 
marked with small black points on the nervules ; no submargiual band ; cilia blackish at 
emargination of fore wing below apex. Underside rather brighter yellow ; outer marginal 
area reddish. 
Azata? emarginata. (Plate CLI. fig. 14.) 
Expanse |-f inch. 
Male. Fore wing emarginate below apex ; purplish grey with a few dark striae ; a 
dark lunulate, slightly curved postmedial band ; traces of a dark submarginal band ; a 
chestnut patch on the outer margin below apex ; cilia whitish, dark at apex, median 
nervules, and outer angle. One specimen has a pale spot on a chestnut patch at end of cell, 
and the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. Hind wing with a slight hook just below the 
apex ; the outer margin almost straight from the hook to anal angle ; pale, thickly mottled 
and striated with reddish-brown, and with dark brown near outer margin ; a dark maculate 
postmedial line ; cilia ochreous white, black at hook. Underside paler ; the markings 
obsolete or indistinct ; basal area of hind wing white. 
Azata? palliata. (Plate CLI. figs. 5, 11.) 
Expanse 1^, ? 1^ inch. 
Apex of fore wing hooked and acute ; outer margin slightly rounded, not emarginate 
below apex. 
Male. Antennae ciliate on both sides ; basal area whitish, thickly mottled with pale 
purple-grey and tinged with olive-brown ; outer area olive-brown ; indistinct antemedial and 
submarginal dark transverse lines; a series of antecilial black specks; cilia reddish brown. 
Hind wing similar to fore wing but the antemedial band more distinct ; a dark spot at end 
of cell ; four reddish-brown specks on the nervules towards inner margin ; apical area like 
basal area and not reddish brown ; submarginal line on apical area dark, on olive-brown area 
pale. Underside similar to upperside, but outer areas not olivc-browu, a dark spot at end of 
cell of fore wing; a white subapical spot ; submarginal band of fore wing obsolete. 
Female. Antennae simple. Uniform whitish grey irrorated with dark specks ; antemedial 
band very indistinct ; a postmedial band of reddish-brown specks on the nervules of both 
wings ; submarginal band obsolete. One specimen has a large dark patch between second 
and third median nervules of fore wing. 
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