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joiiicil horizuiitnlly abovo median vein witli the elongated pnrplisb discal spot ; 

 outer band uiiiiiterniptcd, of uniform width, deep jnirplc-black, finely edj;ed 

 externally by a luuulate whitish-yellowish Hue ; the white band beyond basal 

 patch has two grey middle lines, only visible above median vein, where they are 

 bent, and is interrupted between snbmedian fold and vein by a brown clond, which 

 in a manner unites the basal ])atch to the lower jiart of central fascia; the white 

 area of the fascia is traversed by three lines, marked mainly by dark spots on veins, 

 the outermost immediately preceding the outer band ; the usual pale band beyond 

 fascia is filled up with purplish above middle and with brown below; snbmarginal 

 line indicated only in lower half of wing, followed by a pale grey patch at apex, 

 between veins 3 and 4, and below vein 2 ; marginal white dots at end of veins ; 

 fringe purple-black, paler beyond the three pale spaces, with two dark lines and 

 dark spots beyond veins. 



Ilindwing : purplish black, paler in basal half; small white dots at end of 

 veins, and sometimes traces of a postmedi:in line. 



Underside dark purplish, dusted with bluish white ; inner margin of both 

 wings whitish ; cell-spots dark : basal area paler ; outer area with the veins marked 

 dark and light ; fringe as above. 



Face, palpi, and inside edge of collar, shoidders, and patagia snow-white ; 

 base of each segment of palpi purple ; thorax, shoulders, patagia, and antennae 

 purple ; abdomen purplish mixed with whitish ; dorsal baud and crests purple ; 

 legs purple with the joints white. 



Expanse of wings : 3U — 32 mm. 



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In the aberration hmnncothicta only the interrupted band before fascia is 

 white ; the white of the fascia itself, except at the costal edge, being suffused 

 with brown, and the outer baud of the fascia is narrowed. 



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Foreiriiuj : sufTused with pale brownish flesh-colour; the markings brownish 

 fuscous and black ; basal patch darkest, the edge curved outwards to submedian 

 fold, along which it runs shortly inwards, then vertical to inner margin ; inner 

 edge of central fascia 2)firallel to it, angled outwards in cell before cell-spot and 

 inwards on submedian vein ; outer edge acutely inaugled on vein 7, forming a 

 double lobe outwards on vein 4, then incurved, wavy, dentate ; the fascia crossed 

 by five minutely crenulate blackish lines and containing a vertical black linear 

 cell-spot ; the pale band beyond narrow, flesh-coloured, with white teeth inwardly 

 on veins, and wholly while at costa ; marginal area beyond it filled up witli dark 

 fuscous above vein 4, and brownish flesh-colour, with the lines dark, beneath ; paler 

 altogether between veins 3 and 4 ; the submargiual line pale and waved ; a dark 

 marginal line interrupted at the veins ; fringe brownish with dark chequering. 



llindicimj : grey, witli wavy outer and snbmarginal lines, the marginal border 

 darker ; fringe grey, spotted with dark beyond veins. 



Underside dark grey, with the cell-spots black and the outer lines indicated. 



Vertex, paljji, thorax, and abdomen blackish fuscous ; face, fillet, and collar 

 whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



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