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the outer edge is a rust red spot, and the outer half of all that part of the wing 
which is hack of this fourth band is of a darker brown color, becoming velvet black 
at its anterior side next to the band. Halfway between the fourth band and the 
hind edge, on the middle of the wing, an irregular row of black spots or transverse 
streaks is more or less distinct. The hind wings are paler, and beneath are crossed 
by a slightly waved dark brown line. 
This insect pertains to the same family with the handmaid 
moth, described in the preceding pages, and to the genus Clostera , 
which is characterised as having the scales upon the thorax 
elevated into a crest, the wings entire at their hind edges, and 
the antennm (fig. 4 a) short, curved and with two rows of 
branches in both the sexes. The English species are popularly 
named chocolate-tips, the dark spot at the tips of their fore wings 
being of a chocolate brown hue. But in the species before us 
that tint is so slight as to be scarcely obvious, and it will be better 
distinguished by the name White-S, Clostera albosigma, this cha¬ 
racter being in most individuals more conspicuous and vivid 
than it appears in our figure of the species. 
