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postdisco-submarginal spots with white centres rejjresenting the white snbmarginal 

 dots, upper three almost straijrht, the first seldom obliterated, at right angles to the 

 veins which they do not always tonch, well separated from each otlicr, spots H-— ISM- 

 arched, densely shaded with pale blue, extending distad along the veins, reaching 

 tips of tails, veins SC- and R' mostly thinly black beyond spots : admarginal inter- 

 spaces more or less tinged with pale yellow in middle : edge of wing strongly 

 dentate, forewing almost short tails at R- and M', tail W longer than tail M', 

 pointed ; fringe black, excejrf at and near tip of (SM') in many specimens. 



Underside : chalky white, somewhat glossy. Forewing : cell-bar three 



separated into three dots, the uppermost close to SC largest, the second and third 

 close together, sometimes fused, the third below origin of M", larger than the 

 second, the latter sometimes absent or mitiute : upper cell-bar curved, its ends 

 touching bar D, forming with the latter a half-moon filled up with pale bluish grey 

 scaling ; no median and submedian bars M- — (SM^) and R' — M', median and sitb- 

 median bar M' — M' fused together forming a ring filled up with pale bluish grey 

 scaling; this ring varies very much in size, it seldom touches the veins and is always 

 more than 1 mm. distant from origin of M' ; median bar R- — R^ close to apex of 

 cell, sometimes touching bar D, either straight or curved basad at ends, median bars 

 SC — R- always present, well marked, straight or angled, about 9 mm. from cell ; 

 a series of rather thin, bluish grey — the black underscales being covered by white 

 scales — seldom blackish, strongly arched, discal bars, from St"' to SM', bar St'^ — SC" 

 being marked only as a small dot or streak, bars SC^ — R^ at outside with bluish 

 grey scaling generally, but two bars joined together in most individuals forming a 

 mark resembling number 3, bar SC' — R' about 14 mm. from edge of wing midway 

 between veins, the next about lOi, the following one Hi, the last three about 

 Sh mm. distant from edge of wing ; a series of seven postdiscal spots from SC^ — SBP 

 (representing the postdiscal bars), deep wax yellow, the upper ones a little closer to 

 discal lunules than to edge of wing, the posterior ones much closer to discal lunnles, 

 the first two and last two rounded, the other three luniform, the upper ones some- 

 times faintly marked ; there is often (especially in continental individuals) a series 



of wax-yellow, small, snbmarginal spots ; fringe black. Hindwing : submedian 



and median costal bars fused to a ring which varies in size and is filled up with pale 

 bluish grey scaling, a similar but smaller ring (sometimes absent) behind C ; cell- 

 bar close to ajiex as on forewing, generally joined at ends to tlie median bar R- — R' 

 thus forming an ovate ring in which bar D is situated, submedian bar M' — M^, if 

 present, abont halfway between bases of M' and M- or nearer M', submedian bar 

 M- — (SM') also often marked, about 3 mm. from base of M" ; median bar M' — M- 

 behind base of M', seldom absent, bar M" — (SM') also mostly present, obli(jue like 

 the preceding ones, about S mm. from base of M", median bars (SM')— SM' separate 

 from each other, at right angles to SM^ or more obliijue, the npper one of the two 

 touching generally with n])per end the respective discal bar : a complete series of 

 luniform discal bars, the black lunnles overshaded with white, hence appearing pale 

 blue, the upper ones the heaviest, lunnle C— S(!^ about 10 mm. from edge of wing, 

 the last one about 6 or 7 mm. from margin at (SM'), Innules M'^— SM'- interrupted 

 or complete ; this series followed by a series of dots, of which the upper four are 

 deep wax-yellow and larger than the posterior four, which are red, the last two 

 sometimes fused to one sjwt ; snbmarginal bars of nearly eijual thickness, the npper 

 ones almost or quite straight, the others curved, pale blue, separated from the wax- 

 yellow admarginal interspaces by white borders, which are nearly as broad as the 



